From: hellmond@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Peter H. Hellmonds)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.europe
Subject: Maastricht Treaty Text complete (part 10)
Summary: Part 10: Title 7 -- Final Provisions
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:46:58 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU


=== MAASTRICHT TREATY TEXT -- PART 10: TITLE 7 - FINAL PROVISIONS ===

TITLE VII
FINAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE L
The provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Treaty 
establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty establishing 
the European Atomic Energy Community concerning the powers of the Court of 
Justice of the European Communities and the exercise of those powers shall 
apply only to the following provisions of this Treaty:
(a) provisions amending the Treaty establishing the European Economic 
Community, the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and 
the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community;
(b) the third subparagraph of Article K.3(2)(c);
(c) articles L to S.

ARTICLE M
Subject to the provisions amending the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community with a view to establishing the European Community, the 
Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty 
establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and to these final 
provisions, nothing in this Treaty shall effect the Treaties establishing the 
European Communities or the subsequent Treaties and Acts modifying or 
supplementing them.

ARTICLE N
1. The government of any Member State or the Commission may submit to the 
Council proposals for the amendment of the Treaties on which the Union is 
founded.
If the Council, after consulting the European Parliament and, where 
appropriate, the Commission, delivers an opinion in favour of calling a 
conference of representatives of the governments of the Member States, the 
conference shall be convened by the President of the Council for the purpose 
of determining by common accord the amendments to be made to those Treaties. 
The European Central Bank shall also be consulted in the case of institutional 
changes in the monetary area.
The amendments shall enter into force after being ratified by all the Member 
States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
2. A conference of representatives of the governments of the Member States 
shall be convened in 1996 to examine those provisions of this Treaty for which 
revision is provided, in accordance with the objectives set out in Articles A 
and B.

ARTICLE O
Any European State may apply to become a Member of the Union. It shall address 
its application to the Council, which shall act unanimously after consulting 
the Commission and after receiving the assent of the European Parliament, 
which shall act by an absolute majority of its component members.
The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the 
Union is founded which such admission entails shall be the subject of an 
agreement between the Member States and the applicant State. This agreement 
shall be submitted for ratification by all the contracting States in 
accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.

ARTICLE P
1. Articles 2 to 7 and 10 to 19 of the Treaty establishing a Single Council 
and a Single Commission of the European Communities, signed in Brussels on 8 
April 1965, are hereby repealed.
2. Article 2, Article 3(2) and Title III of the Single European Act signed in 
Luxembourg on 17 February 1986 and in the Hague on February 1986 are hereby 
repealed.

ARTICLE Q
This Treaty is concluded for an unlimited period.

ARTICLE R
1. This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance 
with their respective constitutional requirements. The instruments of 
ratification shall be deposited with the government of the Italian Republic.
2. This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 January 1993, provided that all the 
instruments of ratification have been deposited, or, failing that, on the 
first day of the month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification 
by the last signatory State to take this step.

ARTICLE S
This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Danish, Dutch, English, 
French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, the 
texts in each of these languages being equally authentic, shall be deposited 
in the archives of the government of the Italian Republic, which will transmit 
a certified copy to each of the governments of the other signatory States.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty.
Done at Maastricht on the seventh day of February one thousand nine hundred 
and ninety two
[[editor's note: the above sentence appears in all 10 languages]]
[[ the signatures follow ]]


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