Strasbourg, 16/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, confirmed his participation in the debate on the use of deleted uranium in Bosnia and Kosovo, with which the European Parliament will begin its works this Wednesday in Strasbourg. The representatives of political groups had insisted on his participation in this discussion, during the Conference of Presidents, last July in Brussels.
As EUROPE had indicated (see bulletin of 6 January, p.6), the Conference of Presidents also examined the demand by the German Christian Democrat Diemut Theato, President of the Budgetary Control Committee, aiming to create a temporary sub-committee on the Fléchard case (which concerns a fraud in the framework of a butter export, subsidised by the Commission under aid to Russia). The Conference of Presidents noted that the creation of such a sub-committee is not foreseen by the EP regulation, but she authorised the creation of a specific working group within the Budgetary Control Committee.
The Conference of President, Thursday in Strasbourg, must discuss initiatives that should be taken by the Parliament with regards to the up-coming works linked to the "post-Nice" reform. It will also have an exchange of views with Commissioner Loyola de Palacio on the legislative programme of the European Commission. Finally it must also examine a demand by the German Green Friedrich Graefe zu Baringdorf, President of the Agriculture Committee, aiming to create a sub-committee on food quality.