sentences:  France and Russia greatly influenced the negotiations, with France urging for larger new territories to be formed, which it hoped would later ally with them, while Russia favoured "a more traditional balance".Eventually, the "Reichsdeputationshauptschluss" (Imperial Recess), the final document which reorganised the Empire, was signed on 25 February 1803.The Recess did far more than simply satisfy the need to compensate the princes, but fundamentally restructured the Empire by secularising all ecclesiastical states except for the Electorate of Mainz.