2004-05-26 Council publishes latest text version

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The Council of Ministers has published the latest version of its directive text (changes are underlined).

This was secured by a slim qualified majority by a deceptive maneuver of the german delegation at the ministers' meeting and still needs to be confirmed by the national governments.

Previous versions of the text were not published, and even for disclosing old text versions with positions of national governments deleted, formal approval procedures were needed.