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There was against this background that a committee was set up to propose concrete stages leading towards full monetary union. The Delors report appeared in 1989,April. and its three stage progression towards economic and monetary union was subsequently enshrined in the Maastricht treaty. The decision as to which Member States qualified for the single currency in 1999 was made by a qualified, or weighted, majority vote of the Council on the basis of reports by the European Monetary Institute submitted in March 1998.