On 13 February, the Director General of the legal service of the Council wrote to the president of the Parliament explaining that "regulation 975 and regulation 976 being two separate legal instruments with different scope of application, it has been considered that each of the amending regulations has to be adopted separately".
Padomes Juridiskā dienesta ģenerāldirektors 13. februārī rakstiski paskaidroja Parlamenta priekšsēdētājam, ka “tā kā Regula Nr. 975 un Regula Nr. 976 ir divi atsevišķi tiesību akti ar atšķirīgām piemērošanas jomām, tad grozījumu regulas jāpieņem atsevišķi”.