But three years later, after court challenges and a series of last-minute amendments that weakened it, the law, some environmentalists say, may now be outdated.

Now the conference promises to be extremely contentious because of a last-minute amendment that represented a political betrayal.

A very costly and fundamental change in veterans' health care should not be done on the fly with a last-minute amendment.

Prosecutors have been reprimanded for last-minute amendments of charges.

The arrival of the art will surely dictate last-minute amendments.

Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to apologise for tabling a last-minute amendment.

This also includes the last-minute amendments tabled last week.

I urge you to vote in favour of the report tomorrow without last-minute amendments.

Matters must be made clear, and not complicated by last-minute amendments.

After the conference voted this evening against allowing any last-minute amendments, the document was approved by consensus.