a review and wide public consultation during 1992 and early 1993 led to the adoption by the EU Council of Ministers of Resolution C 93/213/01 of 22 July 1993, providing for the liberalization of the provision of public voice telephony services by 1 January 1998, subject to additional transitional periods of up to five years for Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, and a possible delay of up to the year 2000 for Luxembourg