And we all know how things are going with the conciliation procedure.

I should also like to add a few words about the conciliation procedure.

In our experience, it was certainly one of the most difficult conciliation procedures ever.

This has never happened before in the course of the conciliation procedure.

There is no moving beyond that, either here or in the conciliation procedure.

We also finally agreed on that under the conciliation procedure.

It will not therefore be necessary to go to a conciliation procedure.

The conciliation procedure has thus very quickly led to a result which all the institutions can support.

That is exactly what was agreed on during the conciliation procedure.

Perhaps we can come to some agreement about this in the course of the conciliation procedure.

I believe we have done a good job, and it was interesting to take part in a conciliation procedure of this sort.

Even then, two areas of the legislation have involved us having to go through a second reading and the conciliation procedure.

But the whole purpose of the conciliation procedure is to bring about agreement even so.

At the end I will come back to the outcome of the conciliation procedure.

That is how many Members rejected the results of the first conciliation procedure.

The conciliation procedure was relatively difficult because the Council did not show any particular interest in the programme.

These have now been put right at second reading in this House and the subsequent conciliation procedure.

All we managed to do in the conciliation procedure was put the matter on ice.

I must say that the last amendment was really difficult to get through in the conciliation procedure.

It was adopted recently through a conciliation procedure on 29 June 2000.

We all wanted to avoid a conciliation procedure, but not - let me make this quite clear now - at any price!

I am sure that tomorrow's vote will set a conciliation procedure in motion.

We clearly ought to enter into the conciliation procedure with the Council.

We will confirm this today and, if necessary, in a conciliation procedure.

Over the years, I have had direct or indirect experience of many conciliation procedures.