Why is the Commission in such a hurry?

Posted Feb 9, 2005 21:32 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Sticking directives into the next available meeting is normal if the Council has already come to agreement. (These are A-list directives, to be adopted without discussion)

The purpose of not adopting directives at the same meeting as agreement is reached is probably to give the Council a waiting period to make sure they don't regret their decision. Now we have to tell them they should regret their decision and it should be brought back to the Council discussion stage.

(Because we can't be sure we'll achieve this, we have to simultaneously tell the parliament to call for it to be brought all the way back to the First Reading stage. These are our only two options, IIRC, so we have to try them both.)