In addition to establishing specific areas of cooperation, the agreement creates a Cooperation Committee, to be responsible for its management and proper implementation.

– having regard to the Cooperation Committee meeting of 16 April 2002 and the upcoming Cooperation Committee meeting of 15 May 2002 in Kaliningrad,

The Cooperation Council welcomed the momentum which had been created in developing the relations between the European Union and Russia, in particular over the past six months through the intensive work of the Summits, the Cooperation Committee and its nine subcommittees, and, most importantly, through continued day-to-day work on both sides.

The Parties noted with satisfaction that all the institutions of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), in particular the Cooperation Committee and its subcommittees, had been established and had held their first meetings.

In the case by the three Transcaucasian republics and Uzbekistan, there will be new titles on assistance in the fields of democracy and human rights and in combating illegal activities; and a new chapter offering assistance to prepare the partner for accession to WTO (xi) institutional and general provisions: including inter alia the establishment of the Cooperation Council (at Ministerial level) the Cooperation Committee (at official level) and the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee; the dispute settlement procedure; and the "suspension clause" allowing a party to suspend the agreement if the "essential elements" (see (ii) above) ar ...[+++]e breached.

The committee endorses the idea of freeing up voting in the House but we hesitate to create unreasonably high expectations.