Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, gentlemen, for coming. I appreciate some of the light you're able to shed on this.
Let me start just by making sure I understand the procedure by which we ended up with these proposed amendments to the convention.
In testimony this morning I think I heard the words, or along this line, that the EU held the pen. The implication was that the EU basically wrote the amendments and then the other countries were forced to go along with them, that these are all EU ideas and the EU is getting what it wants.
Can you tell me how the process worked, to start with?