Produced by Neil McLachlan

The Treaty of the European Union

The Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992.

Contributed by Neil McLachlan, nmclachlan@delphi.com

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CONTENTS

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
MAY1_92 Declaration on Protocol No. 17, made on the 1st May 1992

HEADS TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC, HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SPAIN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

RESOLVED to mark a new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities,

RECALLING the historic importance of the ending of the division of the European continent and the need to create firm bases for the construction of the future Europe,