23. Recalls that preventing terrorist access to CBRN materials is a key priority under both the current 2005 EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the future one, as well as under the 2003 EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Means of Delivery; requests, therefore, that the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator report regularly to Parliament, through the appropriate and relevant EU agencies and experts, on the level of any potential CBRN risks or threats within the Union or against EU citizens and interests elsewhere; insists that further clarification is needed of the appropriate roles of the various EU an ...[+++]d national bodies involved in the fight against terrorism; acknowledges, in that connection, the coordination role of the COSI and the SitCen; calls for Parliament, as the only directly democratically elected body in the EU, and in the framework of its prerogatives, to guarantee democratic oversight of both these bodies and, thus, be kept promptly and fully informed about their activities, in a way that maintains their secure functioning;

2. ECAC/JAA responsibilities - to finalise and adopt, in co-operation with the Commission, a comprehensive and workable Safety Assessment Procedure (the framework for this has already been established) - to establish, for this summer, a co-ordination mechanism for the centralisation and dissemination of information and prepare a system for the subsequent analysis of foreign air carriers whose safety levels do not seem appropriate - to set up coordination procedures with other expert bodies, eg. the ICAO - to set up specialist assessment teams for the audit of foreign air carriers and safety oversight authorities - to consider setting up ...[+++]a European co-operation programme to help third countries improve their safety oversight capabilities.