From: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
Newsgroups: uk.politics,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: I've found a copy of the Maastrict Treaty
Date: 4 Oct 92 09:47:37 GMT
Reply-To: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK.

livesey@solntze.esd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:

>In article <BvI516.294@newcastle.ac.uk>, w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
>|> I've seen a copy of the Maastrict Treaty in the library.  If you want to
>|> find it - you'll have great difficulty.

>No you won't, you great buffoon.  It's ftp'able from the
>net, for starters.

I'd like to see you ftp a book :-)

>Can someone supply this poor downtrodden fellow a site name?

Are there any countries were the citizens are bothered who rules
them?  Apparently the UK government does not think this country 
is one :-(

I've recently seen a relevent article on the net I enclose them
below.

>jon.
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From: lacom@dxcern.cern.ch (Giuseppe La Commare)
Subject: Re: Maastricht



You can get a copy of the Treaty via anonymous ftp in princeton.edu, the file 
is /pub/Maastricht.Traty.tar.Z

Here is a copy of the readme:

The files on this disc contain the text of the latest addition 
to the Treaty on European Union signed at Maastricht on the 7th 
February 1992.  It should preferably be read in conjunction with 
the previous treaties, which it amends and extends.
File format of this self-extracting archive is ASCII.

The files are:
HEADS      Introduction of signatories
TITLE1     Common Provisions
TITLE2     Provisions Amending the Treaty Establishing the
           European Ecomonic Community with a View to
           Establishing the European Community
TITLE3     Provisions Amending the Treaty Establishing the
           European Coal and Steel Community
TITLE4     Provisions Amending the Treaty Establishing the
           European Atomic Energy Community
TITLE5     Provisions on a Common Foreign & Security Policy
TITLE6     Provisions on Cooperation in the Fields of
           Justice & Home Affairs
TITLE7     Final Provisions
PROTOCO    Protocols
FINAL      FINAL ACT

These files have been put together by Susan Nelson & David Pollard:

                      David Pollard Publishing
       Folly Bridge Workshops, Thames Street, Oxford OX1 1SU
                  Facsimile  0865 (Oxford) 792277
  Telephone:  Susan Nelson 0865 727203  David Pollard 0865 240048

If you read and/or use this compilation for commercial purposes,
a contribution would be much appreciated.
Please make cheques payable to David Pollard Associates.

Please write for details of current publications on E.C. matters.

The text was withdrawn from sale by H.M.S.O. in March 1992 on orders from
the E.C. and was not available until well after the general election. The
British government published their Command Paper in May (price UKP 13.30). We
published the text in April because we felt that details of the proposed major
changes to the British Constitution (and the constitutions of our European
neighbours) should be readily and inexpensively available. 
Our printed copy is available, 64 pp A4 format, for UKP 2.95 + 55p postage.

Cheers,
Giuseppe

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From: olevi@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Villumsen)
Subject: Re: Maastricht
Date: 3 Oct 92 19:08:55 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark


According to the material send out by Folketinget, the Danish parliament,
before the referendum in Denmark, the European Union has 9 important
elements in it:

1. The economic and monetarian union, introduced in 3 phases.
2. A number of new issues are taken into the EC cooperation.
    . visa politics
    . education
    . culture
    . people's health (What does 'people's' mean? /ole)
    . protection of the consumer
    . industry
    . cooperation on development
3. Environmental politics are changed: in many cases decisions will be taken
   by majority. Today they require consensus.
4. Social and labor market politics are changed, except for Great Britain.
   This does not affect social pensions. Decisions by majority are introduced
   for
    . workers' conditions and safety
    . information to and hearing of workers
    . equality of the sexes (is there a good English word for this?)
5. The EC parliament will have greater influence, and an ombudsman is
   introduced
6. The principle of subsidiarity(?) is introduced (bah! /ole)
7. Denmark can retain it's ban on foreigners' purchase of summer houses in
   Denmark.
8. Foreign and security politics are a part of the union. This was introduced
   in the 1986 union, but is now extended. Cooperation is still between
   independent states.
9. Legal cooperation.
    . asylum and immigration politics
    . fighting drug abuse
    . exchange of police's information regarding crimes

I have done the translation from English and the resume - so the above,
apart from giving the view that Folketinget would like to give us Danes,
probably also contrains errors that are due to me.