Ms Brenda McVeigh:

Like most of the other member states that are not participating, we felt that the best way of addressing this was in the working party meetings, which are very technical in nature. We have raised multiple concerns about it. We even did it during our Presidency, when we had to stay quite neutral on the whole issue. We were getting the point across that we shared the concerns of the UK and we had concerns that go beyond what the UK stated in its challenge, and we shared concerns voiced by the 11 participating states also.