Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as the Danish and Swedish Governments,
submit that the request for an Opinion is inadmissible or is, at any rate, premature.
They argue that there is no agreement framed in sufficiently precise terms to
enable the Court to examine the compatibility of accession with the Treaty. In the
opinion of those Governments an agreement cannot be said to be envisaged at a
stage where the Council has as yet not even adopted a decision in principle to open
negotiations on the agreement.