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Mr. Deakins
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which provisions of the treaty of Rome and the United Kingdom treaty of Accession to the European Economic Community containing requirements about majority voting in the Council of Ministers are not at present operated in the Council.
Mr. Rifkind
Outside the agricultural and budgetary fields the Council's practice has been, in all but a few isolated instances, to proceed by consensus.