Brussels, 19/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The chair of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Elmar Brok (D, EPP) once more pleaded in favour of work of the convention on the future of Europe to continue with a draft constitutional text on the table, enabling the members of the Convention to better focus their talks and arrive at tangible and concrete results. In this context, Brok said he was "very concerned" at the fact that, on a proposal by Convention chairman Giscard d'Estaing, the Convention's next plenary session (24/25 June) should decide on setting up seven more working groups on the following aspects: area of justice and freedom, external actions, defence policy, development policy, simplification of instruments and legislation, regional and sub-regional dimension of European policy. Such an increase in the number of working groups (in all, there will then be 13) risks seriously deviating the debate "in all possible directions" and reducing its effectiveness proportionately, Mr. Brok told a small group of journalists on Wednesday. The outcome could be a situation of "management by chaos", he added. This development demonstrates all the more the need for the Convention to have, as soon as possible ("in any case by the end f the year"), a draft constitutional text as basis for the debate to continue. "It is the task of the Presidium to propose a draft text. If the Presidium proves to be incapable of doing so by September, others will do the job", said Brok.