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 | | Qualified majority voting (QMV): Designed by the Treaty of Rome to be the principal method of reaching decisions (on economic issues) in the Council of Ministers, qualified majority voting (QMV) allocates votes to member states in part according to their population, but heavily weighted in favor of the smaller states. | | | European Council: regular meetings of all the Heads of States, makes key decisions on the development of the EU, accession of new members, etc. Council of Ministers: the interface between member states and the Community's supranational entities; highest regular decision-making and law-making body of the member states. | | | European Commission (CEC): has the sole right of initiative in legislating, is the guardian of treaties, and executes European laws. |
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http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/hpschmitz/PSC350/PSC350DefinitionsIR6.doc
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| | European Union Legal Materials |
| | The Draft Constitution was completed and presented to the President of the EU by the President of the Convention on July 18, 2003. | | | Y.B. 412 (EEC Treaty or Treaty of Rome). | | | Because of a negative vote in an Irish referendum on the Treaty, the Treaty of Nice may never be ratified. |
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http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/Research_Guides/internat_law/eu
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| | Multinational Employers Take Note: EU Enlargement Has Some Changes in Store for You and Your Expatriates |
| | The EC Treaty (Article 8a) lays down the principle of the right of citizens of the European Union to move and reside freely within the territory of the member states, subject to certain conditions. | | | While the general right to free movement and residence within the EU for EU citizens is immediate and broadly applicable, movement between member states for purposes of work is “restricted” for up to seven years. | | | Several existing member states have imposed new restrictions on immigration from the 10 accession countries. |
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http://www.us.kpmg.com/microsite/tax/ies/tea/spring2004/stories/article03.htm
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| | European Union |
| | On 29 October 2004 the European heads of state signed in Rome the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution. | | | However, if all the member states do not ratify the Constitutional Treaty, then it might be necessary to reopen the Treaty negotiations. | | | In recent years, considerable efforts have been made to consolidate and simplify the treaties, culminating with the proposed draft Constitution of Europe. |
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http://www.askfactmaster.com/EU
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| | The European Commission in Ireland |
| | This draft Constitutional Treaty is to be used as a basis for the work of the next Intergovernmental Conference in framing a new Treaty. | | | In June 2003 the European Convention submitted its proposals for a Constitutional Treaty to the European Council. | | | This Treaty provides for the accession of the following countries to the European Union: Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. |
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http://www.euireland.ie/LegalRights/sources.htm
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| | Delegación de la Comisión Europea para Colombia y Ecuador |
| | Their objective is to monitor the progress the new Member States are making in implementing EU law. | | | A first draft list of BIPs to be approved will be drawn up in September 2003. | | | [1] signed the Treaty of Accession and the Act of Accession attached to it in Athens on 16 April 2003. |
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http://www.delcol.cec.eu.int/EN/whatsnew/new_25.htm
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| | EU Enlargement Information Campain |
| | The office of the Delegation of the European Commission was opened in Nicosia in May 1990. | | | Constitution: 16 August 1960; negotiations to create the basis for a new or revised constitution to govern the island and to better relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots have been held intermittently. | | | The accession negotiations started in March 1998 and were completed in December 2002. |
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http://www.european-movement.org/enlargement/focus_on_cyprus.php
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| | NATO Update: Accession Protocol - 26 March 2003 |
| | Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of the Republic of Lithuania | | | Start of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Council with the participation of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia | | | The Protocols of Accession are amendments to the North Atlantic Treaty which once signed and ratified by the 19 NATO member countries, will permit the invited countries to become parties to the Treaty and members of NATO. |
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http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2003/03-march/e0326a.htm
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| | Council of the European Union |
| | Further revisions to voting weights are proposed in the draft constitutional treaty which is currently under negotiation. | | | This Treaty also provides for qualified majority votes to require a 'double majority' of both population and number of countries. | | | The voting system used for a given decision depends on the policy area to which that decision belongs; according to the Treaties, some subjects require unanimity, while others require only a qualified majority. |
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http://www.bidprobe.com/en/wikipedia/c/co/council_of_the_european_union.html
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| | USMEF Europe_ProfilePork |
| | On May 1, 2004 the Treaty of Accession 2003 became effective and the European Union (EU) saw its fifth and largest expansion. | | | Nonetheless, trade dynamics will change, with the accession of the ten new member states to the EU. | | | Nonetheless, while EU per capita incomes fluctuate between member states, they are generally high. |
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http://www.usmef.org/TradeLibrary/Europe_ProfilePork.asp
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| | Treaty of Accession : April 2003 - Table of Contents |
| | of the Treaty, Act and Final Act (c. | | | (referred to in Article 3 of the Act of Accession) | | | List referred to in Article 20 of the Act of Accession: |
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http://www.europarl.eu.int/enlargement_new/treaty/default_en.htm
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| | Press Release |
| | The EEC gradually grew to 9 members in 1973 with UK, Ireland, and Denmark joining, to ten in 1981 with Greece joining it and to 12 in 1986 with the accession of Spain and Portugal. | | | Ten countries from East Europe are signing the Treaty of Accession here today to accede to the European Union. | | | This is the biggest enlargement of what started in the 1950s as the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community) and later as the EEC (European Economic Community) with six founding members (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy). |
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http://www.delind.cec.eu.int/en/pressandinfo/press_releases_2003/30.htm
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| | ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - An Overview of the Treaty of Accession of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, ... |
| | On 13 October 1999, the Commission recommended Member States to open negotiations with Romania, the Slovak Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Malta. | | | In April 2003, in Athens, the Treaty of Accession was signed by the present 15 member states and by the 10 acceding countries. | | | For the 10 acceding countries, only one treaty was issued. |
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http://aei.pitt.edu/archive/00001622
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| | Athens Informal European Council |
| | Official site of the Greek EU Presidency during the first half of 2003. | | | This link of the European Commission allows to dowload the full text of the Treaty of Accession for those countries that will join EU in 2004. | | | The Delegation of the European Union in Poland provides detailed information on the Polish accession process to the EU. |
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http://www.diplomaticnet.com/uk/act/act94.html
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| | EEA - IMS Indicators - CSI 003 Specification - Emissions of primary particles and secondary particulate precursors |
| | The Treaty of Accession 2003 of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. | | | [1] The Treaty of Accession 2003 of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. | | | Emission reduction targets for the new EU10 Member States have been specified in the Treaty of Accession to the European Union 2003 |
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http://ims.eionet.eu.int/ISpecs/ISpecification20041001123025
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| | ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - ‘EU Enlargement, the Race Equality Directive and the Internal Market.’ |
| | Article 6 of the Treaty of European Union is based on the ‘principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms’ guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. | | | One method that will be employed by the EU to assess commitment to its obligations is to judge whether or not the acceding countries are in compliance with EU legal obligations aimed at the eradication of racial discrimination through the application of the Race Equality Directive (RED). | | | Particular provisions include Articles 53 and 54 (relating to directives and decisions). |
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http://aei.pitt.edu/archive/00002981
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| | Treaties |
| | Du er her: EU-Oplysningen > Documents > Treaties | | | Report on reforming the Folketing's treatment of EU issues |
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http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/dokumenter_en/treaties?caldate=2004-12
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| | Balkan Opportunities > Programmes, cooperation and opportunities, business and careers: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, ... |
| | Events such as conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums, fairs, or workshops, related to the enlargement of the European Union and more particularly to the Accession criteria defined by the European Council in 1993 in Copenhagen, the 31 chapters of the Accession negotiations and the Treaty of Accession 2003 signed in Athens on 16 April 2003. | | | Phare Small Projects Programme of the European Commission (B7-030), 2003 – Call for proposals | | | To increase the visibility of the European Union, within the ten countries eligible for funding under the Phare programme (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia). |
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http://www.balkans.mehedinti.info/programmes
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| | Restricted - EUbusiness |
| | 2003-04-10 20:48:55 The English version of the Treaty of Accession for the ten candidate countries - Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia - is donwloadable from here(ZIP, 31 MB, 5,000 pages) | | | As a consequence, following virtually no growth in economic activity in early 2003, expectations are still for a modest rebound of activity in the second half of 2003 although cumulative growth in 2003 may turn out to be slightly lower than earlier expected. | | | The uncertainty associated with the conflict in Iraq is now lifted, inflation is decelerating and financial conditions are becoming more supportive. |
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http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/Restricted
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| | Kingdom of Belgium: Information From Answers.com |
| | Meaning #1: a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Common Market and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | | | The noun Kingdom of Belgium has one meaning: |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/kingdom-of-belgium
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