§ The importance of the Commission's role and the need to maintain both the balance established among the institutions by the Treaties and the powers allocated to each institution were recongised by all the representatives.
§ The President of the Commission should be appointed a sufficiently long time in advance of taking up duties and before the process of appointing the other Members of the Commission begins.
§ The number of Members of the Commission should, for the time being, remain as laid down in the Treaties. The European Council is nevertheless agreed that it will review the situation when Spain and Portugal join the European Communities.