Elles formaient un tout, et c'est ce tout que le ministre a accepté, à l'exception de la répartition 50-50, qui devait s'appliquer au point critique de 9 700 tonnes.
They were meant to be taken as a whole, and that's the way the minister accepted them, with the exception of the 50-50 sharing, which was to be engaged at the trigger point of 9,700 tonnes.