Brussels, 04/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - An extra Justice Council will be convened in the evening of Tuesday 16 October following the joint JHA/ECOFIN Council in order to make progress on adopting anti-terrorist measures, particularly on the difficult dossier of creating a European arrest warrant. Belgian Presidency sources suggest that the Council will have the job of reporting back and giving nudges in the right direction, where required, so that the European Council in Ghent will also be able to deal with other issues on its agenda, but without the objective of already reaching agreement on the European arrest warrant, adding that the objective of reaching agreement on how such a warrant would operate by December was "very optimistic" and the stops would have to be pulled out. Council experts started discussing the terrorism package on Monday, with a day of talks on the European arrest mandate. Experts are finding it difficult to advance, and negotiations over the draft framework decision on fighting terrorism (harmonisation of definitions and sanctions) are reported to be making better progress.