This is the final stage in a long process of revising the rules on inland waterway shipping which reached a standstill in Council because of a conflict of competences between the EC and the Central Commission for the Navigation on the Rhine.
Premjerministrs izteica gandarījumu, ka jautājumā par Eiropas nākotni un konstitūciju ES nolēmusi pāriet no pārdomām uz aktīvāku rīcību.