Parliament, although insisting as a matter of principle that the codecision procedure should be applied whenever this is legally and technically possible, accepts in this particular case the Council's decision to split the regulation on legal grounds (regulations which have been established under the consultation procedure, should also be modified using the appropriate procedure), but clearly states that this acceptance can not be interpreted as a precedent for any future proposals for legislative texts submitted to it.
Parliament, although insisting as a matter of principle that the codecision procedure should be applied whenever this is legally and technically possible, accepts in this particular case the Council's decision to split the regulation on legal grounds (regulations which have been established under the consultation procedure, should also be modified using the appropriate procedure), but clearly states that this acceptance can not be interpreted as a precedent for any future proposals for legislative texts submitted to it.