Brussels, 10/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - During its plenary session at the end of May in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on applying the open coordination method, presented after a verbal question by Michel Rocard, Chairman of the EP Culture and Education Committee. In this resolution, the EP calls on the Council and the Commission to "take part in the negotiations for an inter-institutional agreement with the EP, which will establish rules for the selection of open coordination policies for a coherent application of the method with the full participation of the EP in equal conditions". It is also stressing that this "inter-institutional agreement must contain rules on the EP's participation with the setting up of objectives and indicators for access to documents, participation in meetings, inspection and verification of what progress has been accomplished and information on reports and best practices, as well as a procedure that is suitable for developing the open coordination method and Community method, which could be formalised during the work of the European Convention and the future IGC". It also points our that the open coordination method must not evolve in the direction of a parallel legislative procedure but which is hidden and which upsets established procedures".