22/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The EP has sent the request of the rapporteur to committee stage. Luis Queiro (UEN, Portugal) had mentioned the problems of the coherency of the draft report regarding industry and the market with a Community policy on defence equipment. At the end of Wednesday afternoon, instead of and in place of this report, Parliament listened to a Council and Commission declaration on Russia, including the situation in Chechnya (request by EPP-ED which obtained 117 votes...