EUROPEAN UNION LEGAL
SYSTEM
Treaties
Treaty |
In force | Summary |
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European Coal and Steel
Community (ECSC) Treaty (Treaty of Paris, 1951) |
1952 | Concluded for 50 years amongst the Six on the basisi of the Schuman Plan |
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European Economic Community
(EEC) Treaty (Treaty of Rome, 1957) |
1957 | Concluded on the model of the ECSC Treaty but with a much broader range of objectives; the most important of the Treaties. |
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European Atomic Energy
Community (EAEC or Euratom) Treaty (also signed in Rome, 1957) |
1957 | A sector-specific Treaty of limited application. |
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Treaty establishing a Single
Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities (Merger Treaty, 1965) |
July 1967 |
Amended the ECSC, EEC and Euratom Treaties to create a Council and a Commission serving all three Communities. |
| Single European Act (1986) | July 1987 |
Amended and expanding the EEC Treaty and laid down new procedures for foreign policy cooperation. |
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Treaty on European
Union (Maastricht Treaty, 1992) |
November 1993 |
Established
the European Union; amended and expanded the EEC Treaty; created the co-decision
procedure; created "pillars" of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and
Cooperation in the fileds of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). |
| Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) | Mai 1999 |
Amended the Maastricht Treaty and the EEC Treaty; extended co-decision; added new provision on social policy; incorporated the Schengen Agreement into EEC Treaty; created "constructive abstension"; strengthened transparency. |
Other Treaties and InstrumentsTreaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence (signed in Brussels on 17 March 1948).
Act concerning the election of the representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, annexed to the Council Decision of 20 September 1976
Council Decision of 31 October 1994 on the system of the European Communities' own resources
Council Decision of 13 July 1987 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission
Council Decision of 1 January 1995 determining the order in which the office of President of the Council shall be held
Databases and CollectionsEUR-Lex provides free public access to issues of the Official Journal of the European Communities (both L and C series) published in the last twenty days, the Treaties, consolidated versions of existing legislation and recent judgments by the Court of Justice.
Official Journal - series L and C - Table of contents (since July, 1996).
TED: the online versions of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European communities. This new interface offers new and improved facilities (such as browsing the index of the latest OJS, and a genuine full text search).
Text of COM Documents published in the Official Journal provided by the European Parliament.
Legislation in force - consolidated texts is a collection of all EU legislative texts which have been amended once or more. They are "consolidated" because they incorporate, at a given date, those amendments with a view to obtaining a text which is easier to understand.
Recent Case-law of the Court of Justice and the Court of the First Instance: full text excluding judgements of the Court of First Instance in staff cases.
European Council Summits since 1994.
Official Documents - A very useful site with the mostly official documents of the European Union (Green Papers, White Papers, Communications, Action Plans and so on).