Charter of the Fundamental Rights
- The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights was adopted in Nice in December 2000 (Photo: French EU Presidency)
The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights was adopted in Nice in December 2000 as a political declaration. It contains 54 articles mainly collected from the European Convention on Human Rights.
The EU Court said it was willing to take the Charter into account in its judgements, even if it was not made legally binding. The EU Court has already referred to the Charter in several cases.
Notes
- The Charter was established by a special Convention consisting of 30 representatives from national Parliaments, 16 from the EU Parliament, one from the EU Commission, and one from each of the 15 governments.
The future
The Lisbon Treaty recognise the rights, freedoms and principles set out in the Charter in Art. 6 TEU. The whole text was printed as Part Two of the constitutional treaty (Article I-7).
The Lisbon Treaty inserts Art. 6 TEU making the Charter legally binding. The amended Charter was solemnly declared by the heads of the European Parliament, Council and Commission in the European Parliament 12 December 2007 and was printed in the Official Journal C 303 from 14 December 2007.
Links
See also the Convention working group on the Charter
Bonde website http://www.bonde.com/index.phtml?sid=145
European COnvention http://european-Convention.eu.......nt/docs/sessPlen/00369.en2.PDF
http://ue.eu.int/df/default.asp?lang=en
