Grunden til Rådets vægring blev klar en uge senere, da det viste sig, at 10 medlemsstater slet ikke har gennemført arbejdstidsdirektivet endnu, selv om fristen udløb i marts 2005.
It took a week for the reason for the Council’s refusal to become clear, when it turned out that ten Member States have not, to date, transposed the Working Time Directive at all, even though the deadline for them to do so expired in March 2005.