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The Council would remind the honourable Member that it is up to each member of the Council to set out his or her position during the press conferences that follow Council sessions and to explain those aspects of the debate that they feel need to be presented in public in order to provide the context for that position. The Council is not in the habit of commenting on public statements made by its members.
With regard to the transparency of the Council's work, it would stress that, in accordance with Article 11(6) of Annex II to its Rules of Procedure, after adoption of decisions by the Council during the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the EC Treaty or final adoption of the act concerned, the General Secretariat makes available to the public any legislative documents relating to this act, that is to say those that were drawn up before one of such decisions and that are not covered by any of the exceptions laid down in Article 4(1), (2) and (3), second subparagraph, of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
At the request of the Member State concerned, documents that are covered by those criteria, and that reflect the position of that Member State's delegation, are not made available to the public. On the other hand, when negotiations are in progress on a draft text, the Council reserves the right not to release the identities of the delegations if the conditions of Article 4(3) of that Regulation are met.
Thus, the Council complies with both the letter and the spirit of the official texts, while ensuring the greatest possible transparency. I hope that my statement has also been sufficiently transparent.
With respect to the publication of the votes themselves, the Council would remind the honourable Member that, in the field of legislation, these are automatically published and invites him to refer, in this regard, to the responses that it gave in particular to a series of written questions in 2003 and 2004 on the same subject."@en1
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