Both the Council and the Parliament can amend the budget with the Parliament adopting or rejecting the budget at its second reading.

When the Council severely amended the bill there were riots outside Parliament House.

The planning commission will then vote to recommend that the Council ratify the plan, amend it or turn it down.

On 22 June Spain asked the Council to amend this provision.

The Council also amended the legal basis for the Commission's proposal.

Thus the Council cannot amend the rules 'without being prompted again by the Commission'.

The Council could easily amend its Rules of Procedure to provide for open legislative meetings.

Council cannot amend it.

In this area the Council has amended the preliminary draft budget in two ways.

We are very thorough in our consultation procedure, but in the meantime the Council amended its own text without consulting us or waiting for our views.