Signing of the European Commission proposal on fixed euro parity rates in the Breydel Building of the Commission, followed by a joint press conference, held by the Commission and the Council in the Justus Lipsius Building of the Council, on the fixing of conversion rates between the euro and the currencies of the euro-area Member States. Jacques Santer, President of the Commission (right), and Yves-Thibault de Silguy, European Commissioner for Economic, Financial and Monetary Affairs (left), hold up the signed proposal documents.