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Please note: the section of our website relating to the Constitutional Treaty is no longer active: it is kept online for reference purposes only and is no longer updated. For information about the Lisbon Treaty, please click here.
The UK Office of the European Parliament has prepared an easy-to-consult internet version of the text of the Constitutional Treaty, signed in Rome on 29 October 2004 and due to be ratified by all signatory states by 1 November 2006. The text of the Constitutional Treaty was negotiated over eighteen months in the Convention on the Future of Europe and in the subsequent Intergovernmental Conference of Member State governments. It aims to replace the founding treaties of the European Union and all subsequent EU treaties (1). The new Constitutional Treaty is presented on this website in two versions:
The search tool is used to call each individual article to the screen. Navigation across the Treaty is via the table of contents. The complete text of the Treaty is on the European Council of Ministers' website (a large 359-page pdf document). The European Parliament Office has a duty to raise awareness of the European Parliament and the level of debate and understanding of European integration issues in the United Kingdom. We hope that this presentation will go some way to assist users in gaining an understanding of the contents of the Constitutional Treaty. Dermot Scott
(1) The texts of these treaties are available on the Europa website - please visit http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/en/treaties/index.htm |