The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe: Part IV and protocols

Part IV of the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe contains the 'General and Final Provisions'. This paper looks at these Provisions and, where relevant, compares them with their predecessors in the draft Constitution prepared by the Convention on the Future of Europe. It also considers the Protocols annexed to the Constitution on the role of national parliaments, subsidiarity and proportionality, and transitional institutional provisions. It is one of a series of Library Research Papers on the European Constitution.

United Kingdom, House of Commons: Library: Library Research Papers 2004 http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/commons-research-papers/2004/

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