Judgment_paragraph 73 · European Parliament v Council of the European Communities (13/83)

73Two of the proposals were adopted by the Council before the oral procedure; the Parliament stated that in the circumstances it withdrew those two proposals from the list which it had submitted. The Parliament was unable to withdraw a third proposal which was adopted after amendment by the Council after the oral procedure and became the directive on weights, dimensions and certain other technical characteristics of certain road vehicles (Directive No 85/3 of 19 December 1984, Official Journal 1985, L 2, p. 14). It is common ground that a fourth proposal in the Parliament's list was rejected by the Council and that a fifth lost its purpose since its substance was incorporated by the Council in another directive.