25/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The first meeting of the European Parliament working group on the services directive, scheduled for 28 February, will not be held until 3 March 2005. No changes have been made to the other scheduled dates, namely Thursday 17 March, Thursday 7 April and Wednesday 20 April. At a meeting in Strasbourg, the coordinators of the Internal Market Committee decided that the working group's meetings would be open to all members of the Internal Market Committee but not to the general public. The EP Secretariat notes that the outcome of the deliberations will be fully outlined and debated in meetings of the Internal Market Committee.