The European Union’s new package of telecoms laws, which includes the bloc’s first explicit net neutrality legislation, has hit a snag – a crucial vote in the European Parliament’s industry committee was supposed to take place on Monday, but was delayed, ostensibly due to a technicality over translations.

That’s the official, reasonably plausible explanation for the two-week delay, in any case. As it happens, the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee is heavily divided on the net neutrality issue, specifically over whether internet service providers should be able to degrade types of traffic to the detriment of consumers who expect the full, as-neutral-as-possible internet.

When the telecoms package passed through the last committee, which focused on consumer rights, it saw significant improvements over the original version put forward by the European Commission – specifically, that committee axed the explicit right for telecoms operators and content providers to…