Brussels, 16/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - At the end of the month, the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee will discuss a draft report prepared by the Foreign Affairs Committee president, Elmar Brok (EPP-ED), on improving EU-US relations in the framework of a Transatlantic Partnership Agreement. The Committee will vote on the report in May, and debated and voted upon by the European Parliament plenary in June. The rapporteur (who was in Washington last week) said it was vital to put transatlantic relations on a new basis with a new agreement replacing the current Transatlantic Partnership Agreement (TPA). Only a new Transatlantic Partnership Agreement, coming into force in 2007, would make it possible to coordinate and structure the various transatlantic initiatives currently underway, argues Brok in his draft report. The TPA should make it possible to develop community of action for global and regional cooperation between the EU and the US on all issues of common interest, including the implementation of international treaties reflecting both sides' global responsibilities, like the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and the Non-Proliferation Treaty on weapons of mass destruction (WMD), says Brok. He argues that terrorism and the proliferation of WMD are the biggest security challenges facing the EU and the US and deeper cooperation is required in this field. The scandal of secret flights (rendition) and alleged secret CIA prisons in Europe is 'strongly regrettable,' writes Brok, adding that it would be in the interest of the United States as well as the EU to end the legal limbo surrounding the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, giving them immediate access to justice and a fair trial. On Iran's nuclear programme, Brok calls for the issue to be immediately transferred to the United Nations Security Council if further negotiations between the EU3 and Iran prove impossible. He argues that the EU and the US should also boost their economic partnership under a future TPA. He wants the upcoming summit between the EU and the US (in June 2006) to set the aim of 'completing the Transatlantic Market' by 2015.