Whereas, at their meeting on 29 October 1990, the Council (Environment and Energy Ministers) agreed that the Community and Member States, assuming that other leading countries undertook similar commitments, and acknowledging the targets identified by a number of Member States for stabilizing or reducing emissions by different dates, were willing to take actions aimed at reaching stabilization of the total CO2 emissions by 2000 at the 1990 level in the Community as a whole, and also that Member States which start from relatively low levels of energy consumption and therefore low emissions measured on a per capita or other appropriate basis are entitled to have CO2 targets and/or strategies corresponding to their economic and social development, while improving the energy efficiency of their economic activities;
ker se je Svet na sestanku 29. oktobra 1990 (ministri za okolje in energijo) strinjal, da so Skupnost in države članice, pod predpostavko, da druge vodilne države sprejmejo podobne obveznosti, in priznavajoč cilje, ki so jih določile številne države članice za stabilizacijo ali zmanjšanje emisij do različnih datumov, pripravljene ukrepati s ciljem do leta 2000 doseči stabilizacijo skupnih emisij CO2 v Skupnosti kot celoti na ravni iz leta 1990 in tudi, da so države članice, ki začenjajo z razmeroma nizkih ravni porabe energije in zato nizkimi emisijami, izmerjenimi na prebivalca ali na drugi ustrezni podlagi, upravičene, da njihovi cilji in/ali strategije v zvezi s CO2 ustrezajo njihovemu gospodarskemu in socialnemu razvoju, medtem ko izboljšujejo energetsko učinkovitost svojih gospodarskih dejavnosti;