Under de tekniske møder og en samtale mellem Rådet, Kommissionen og Ken Collins, formanden for Miljøudvalget, og jeg selv kom det frem, at uenigheden ikke var politisk og mere drejede sig om metoden end om indholdet.
At technical meetings and in a tri-partite meeting between the Council, the Commission, Ken Collins, chairman of the Committee on the Environment, and myself, it became apparent that the disagreement was not a political one, and was based more on methodology than on substance.