For the first time ever, MEPs decided that an additional negotiating stage (provided for in the Treaty and known as the conciliation procedure) was pointless: the differences were too profound.
Pirmo reizi deputāti ir atzinuši par nelietderīgu sarunu papildu kārtu (t.s. samierināšanas procedūru, kas paredzēta Līgumā) — domstarpības bija pārāk lielas.