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- CONFERENCE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF MEMBER STATES
- - POLITICAL UNION -
- CONFERENCE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF MEMBER STATES
- - ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION -
-
- Brussels, 12 February 1992
- CONF-UP-UEM 2002/1/92 REV 1
- Subject: Treaty on European Union
- Delegations will find attached hereto the text of the Treaty on European
- Union, and also the text of the Final Act as signed at Maastricht on 7
- February 1992
-
- 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,
-
- CONFIRMING their attachment to the principles of liberty, democracy and
- respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and of the rule of law,
-
- DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their
- history, their culture and their traditions,
-
- DESIRING to enhance further the democratic and efficient functioning of the
- institutions so as to enable them better to carry out, within a single
- institutional framework, the tasks entrusted to them,
-
- RESOLVED to achieve the strengthening and the convergence of their economies
- and to establish an economic and monetary union including, in accordance with
- the provisions of this Treaty, a single and stable currency,
-
- DETERMINED to promote economic and social progress for their peoples, within
- the context of the accomplishment of the internal market and of reinforced
- cohesion and environmental protection, and to implement policies ensuring that
- advances in economic integration are accompanied by parallel progress in other
- fields,
-
- RESOLVED to establish a citizenship common to the nationals of their
- countries,
-
- RESOLVED to implement a common foreign and security policy including the
- eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a
- common defence, thereby reinforcing the European identity and it independence
- in order to promote peace, security and progress in Europe and in the world,
-
- REAFFIRMING their objective to facilitate the free movement of persons while
- ensuring the safety and security of their peoples, by including provisions on
- justice and home affairs in this Treaty,
-
- RESOLVED to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the
- peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the
- citizen in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity,
-
- IN VIEW of further steps to be taken in order to advance European integration,
-
- HAVE DECIDED to establish a European Union and to this end have designated as
- their plenipotentiaries:
-
- HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS:
- Mark EYSKENS, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Philippe MAYSTADT, Minister for Finance;
-
- HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK:
- Uffe ELLEMNA-JENSEN, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Anders FOGH RASMUSSEN, Minister for Economic Affairs;
-
- THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
- Hans-Dietrich GENSCHER, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Theodor WAIGEL, Federal Minister for Finance;
-
- THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC:
- Antonios SAMARAS, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Efthymios CHRISTODOULOU, Minister for Economic Affairs;
-
- HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SPAIN:
- Francisco FERNANDEZ ORDONEZ, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Carlos SOLCHAGA CATALAN, Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance;
-
- THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC:
- Rolan DUMAS, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Peirre BEREGOVY, Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs and the Budget;
-
- THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND:
- Gerard COLLINS, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Berite AHERN, Minister for Finance;
-
- THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,
- Gianni DE MICHELIS, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Guido CARLI, Minister for the Treasury;
-
- HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG:
- Jaques F. POOS, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Jean-Claude JUNCKER, Minister for FINANCE;
-
- HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS:
- Hans van den BROEK, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Willem KOK, Minister for Finance;
-
- THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC:
- Joao de DEUS PINHERO, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
- Jorge BRAG de MACEDO, Minister for Finance;
-
- HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN
- IRELAND:
- The Rt. Hon. Douglas HURD, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
- Affairs;
- The Hon. Francis MAUDE, Financial Secretary to the Treasury;
- WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have
- agreed as follows:
-