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ARTICLE I-24:

Configurations of the Council of Ministers

1.	The Council shall meet in different configurations.

2.	The General Affairs Council shall ensure consistency in the work of the different Council configurations. It shall prepare and ensure the follow-up to meetings of the European Council, in liaison with the President of the European Council and the Commission.

3.	The Foreign Affairs Council shall elaborate the Union's external action on the basis of strategic guidelines laid down by the European Council and ensure that the Union's action is consistent.

4.	The European Council shall adopt by a qualified majority a European decision establishing the list of other Council configurations.

5.	A Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States shall be responsible for preparing the work of the Council.

6.	The Council shall meet in public when it deliberates and votes on a draft legislative act. To this end, each Council meeting shall be divided into two parts, dealing respectively with deliberations on Union legislative acts and non-legislative activities.

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The Presidency of Council configurations, other than that of Foreign Affairs, shall be held by Member State representatives in the Council on the basis of equal rotation, in accordance with the conditions established by a European decision of the European Council. The European Council shall act by a qualified majority.