Foruden at følge nogle af henstillingerne fra året før besluttede man at koncentrere sig om nogle prioriterede områder (såsom foranstaltningerne til terrorismebekæmpelse), da det er umuligt at behandle alle de rettigheder, der eromhandlet i EU's charter om grundlæggende rettigheder.
A working document outlining the basic principles on whichthe report is to be drawn up was discussed at a meeting of the Committee in February 2002.As well as following up some of the recommendations from the previous year, it was decidedto focus on certain priority areas (such as the measures to combat terrorism), given theimpossibility of covering all the rights mentioned in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.