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- TITLE VII
- FINAL PROVISIONS
-
- ARTICLE L
- The provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Treaty
- establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty establishing
- the European Atomic Energy Community concerning the powers of the Court of
- Justice of the European Communities and the exercise of those powers shall
- apply only to the following provisions of this Treaty:
- (a) provisions amending the Treaty establishing the European Economic
- Community, the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and
- the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community;
- (b) the third subparagraph of Article K.3(2)(c);
- (c) articles L to S.
-
- ARTICLE M
- Subject to the provisions amending the Treaty establishing the European
- Economic Community with a view to establishing the European Community, the
- Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty
- establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and to these final
- provisions, nothing in this Treaty shall effect the Treaties establishing the
- European Communities or the subsequent Treaties and Acts modifying or
- supplementing them.
-
- ARTICLE N
- 1. The government of any Member State or the Commission may submit to the
- Council proposals for the amendment of the Treaties on which the Union is
- founded.
- If the Council, after consulting the European Parliament and, where
- appropriate, the Commission, delivers an opinion in favour of calling a
- conference of representatives of the governments of the Member States, the
- conference shall be convened by the President of the Council for the purpose
- of determining by common accord the amendments to be made to those Treaties.
- The European Central Bank shall also be consulted in the case of institutional
- changes in the monetary area.
- The amendments shall enter into force after being ratified by all the Member
- States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
- 2. A conference of representatives of the governments of the Member States
- shall be convened in 1996 to examine those provisions of this Treaty for which
- revision is provided, in accordance with the objectives set out in Articles A
- and B.
-
- ARTICLE O
- Any European State may apply to become a Member of the Union. It shall address
- its application to the Council, which shall act unanimously after consulting
- the Commission and after receiving the assent of the European Parliament,
- which shall act by an absolute majority of its component members.
- The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the
- Union is founded which such admission entails shall be the subject of an
- agreement between the Member States and the applicant State. This agreement
- shall be submitted for ratification by all the contracting States in
- accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
-
- ARTICLE P
- 1. Articles 2 to 7 and 10 to 19 of the Treaty establishing a Single Council
- and a Single Commission of the European Communities, signed in Brussels on 8
- April 1965, are hereby repealed.
- 2. Article 2, Article 3(2) and Title III of the Single European Act signed in
- Luxembourg on 17 February 1986 and in the Hague on February 1986 are hereby
- repealed.
-
- ARTICLE Q
- This Treaty is concluded for an unlimited period.
-
- ARTICLE R
- 1. This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance
- with their respective constitutional requirements. The instruments of
- ratification shall be deposited with the government of the Italian Republic.
- 2. This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 January 1993, provided that all the
- instruments of ratification have been deposited, or, failing that, on the
- first day of the month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification
- by the last signatory State to take this step.
-
- ARTICLE S
- This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Danish, Dutch, English,
- French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, the
- texts in each of these languages being equally authentic, shall be deposited
- in the archives of the government of the Italian Republic, which will transmit
- a certified copy to each of the governments of the other signatory States.
-
- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty.
- Done at Maastricht on the seventh day of February one thousand nine hundred
- and ninety two
- [[editor's note: the above sentence appears in all 10 languages]]
- [[ the signatures follow ]]
-