Brussels, 04/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - Spanish Socialist Carlos Westendorp, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, has explained in a letter to Convention Members of the EP, the demands made by his committee to the European Convention with regard to EU trade policy. He focuses on: Ex-ante consultation with the EP for all Community legislation and measures; Ex-post involvement of the EP and the assent procedure for all international agreements concluded in the field of the CCP; Qualified majority voting. Dutch Socialist, Max van den Bergh commended that, "Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has repeatedly emphasised that in his view the support of the European Parliament is politically essential to the conduct of EU trade policy. It is high time that this principle of democratic accountability was built into the Treaty."