CELEX: 51976PC0374
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-27
Title: DRAFT Common Declaration by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission concerning the respect of Human Rights.

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COM (76) 374
Vol. 1976/0109
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  Common Declaration by the European Parliament / the Council and the Commission
  concerning the respect of Human Rights
  The European Parliament , the Council and the Commission ,
  Whereas the Treaties establishing the European Communities require their
  institutions to respect the law ,
  Whereas , as the Court of Justice has recognized , this law contains , not merely
  the rules embodied in the Treaties and the secondary legislation of the Community
  but also the general principles of law and , in particular , those fundamental
  human and civil rights which are recognized and protected in the Member States ;
  Whereas , moreover , all the Member States are Contracting Parties to the European
  Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed
  in Rome on 4 November 1950 and the rules of the Convention constitute general
  principles of law common to the Member States ;
x Desiving to proclaim their attachment to the respect of human rights ,
  HAVE ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION :
                                                                 «
  In the exercise of their powers and in the pursuit of the objectives of the
  European Communities , the European Parliament , the Council and the Commission
  will respect the fundamental human and civil rights embodied in the constitutions
  of the Member States , the general principles of law and the European Convention
  for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms .