In its common position, the Council rejected Parliament's amendments, instead setting a transitional period of five years for phasing out existing national sizes for domestic production of milk, butter, coffee, dried pasta and rice, and six years for EU-wide rules on white sugar.
Kompromisa grozījumos arī ieteikts, ka "kompetentās iestādes var piemērot īpašus sociālos un pakalpojumu kvalitātes standartus", lai izvairītos no sociālā dempinga riska.