A charge will be made to authors who insist on extensive amendment within the text at the page proof stage.
On Amendment 12, the text of the proposed Article 8a, paragraph 3, was indeed confusing, and we will be redrafting it to make it clearer.
The Swiss Justice Ministry said it would first need to make amendments to the text, expected in March.
Barak and Olmert had made several handwritten amendments to the text of the resolution that ordered the strike, explicitly indicating the potential for war.
Mr. Mekke proposed that both sides agree in advance on a package of amendments to the text of the draft constitution to build more support for it before the Dec. 15 vote.
(Mortensen has not responded to either of the class-action suits. His publisher, Penguin, says it is waiting for Mortenson to recover from heart surgery before making any amendments to the text).
"For example, they said the U.S. forces will withdraw from towns by June 2009 if the security situation permits that, but who will decide that?" Mr. Dabbagh, the government spokesman, said the cabinet would draft amendments to the text to submit to the Americans.
Russia and China had tabled several amendments to the text but these were rejected by the sponsor countries who argued they were an attempt to dilute its focus.
The outcome of today's vote means copyright lobbyists on both sides of the fence face a busy summer — ahead of debate, the chance for amendments to the text and another vote, now set to take place in the EU parliament in September.
The online version has a fully transcribed set of digital pages, including amendments to the text, and two images of each page, with both standard lighting and raked lighting to highlight the texture of the parchment.
