Obviously, simple management by the intergovernmental conference is not enough.

With the intergovernmental conference we were going to try to bring Europe closer together.

The intergovernmental conference will have to concern itself with that.

However, the Commission itself cannot do that; any such change has to take place in connection with the next intergovernmental conference.

The work of the intergovernmental conference received a fresh stimulus.

Let me make a brief comment on the second point, the intergovernmental conference.

The possibility of holding an intergovernmental conference, now or at some point in the future, could be discussed.

Then we would not need another intergovernmental conference but could make considerable progress in this area.

We have exhausted the present method of the intergovernmental conference.

Member States recognized this during the negotiations at the intergovernmental conference.