May I congratulate not only the rapporteur, but also my own colleague, Hermann Vermeer, for his excellent work in leading the search for a compromise and breaking the early deadlock between the two sides of the House, one insisting that voluntary agreements should never have a role, and the other saying that legislation should never have a role.
Permettez-moi de féliciter non seulement le rapporteur, mais également mon propre collègue, M. Herman Vermeer, pour son excellent travail de recherche de compromis et de médiation entre les deux camps de l'Assemblée, le premier défendant la législation et le second défendant les accords volontaires.