Mr. Aidan Ryan:

The next meeting is tomorrow. The first cut of three articles has already taken place over a two-day meeting and that raised more questions than answers. The next meeting is tomorrow. The French Presidency will control the speed at which this will progress. At the moment, we do not expect the Council to be in a position to finalise its position until the very end of the French Presidency and possibly to seek a general approach at the final meeting of the Council of Ministers of Justice towards the end of its Presidency in June and July. After that, it will begin to go into the trilogue process with the European Parliament. We will have some feedback from the European Parliament on its views of the process.