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The Treaty of Amsterdam - Contents

• INTRODUCTION
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• I. FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE
  • 1. Fundamental rights and non-discrimination
  • 2. Creation of an area of freedom, security and justice
• II. THE UNION AND THE CITIZEN
  • 1. Employment
  • 2. Social policy
  • 3. Environment
  • 4. Public health (Article 129)
  • 5. Consumer protection (Article 129a)
  • 6. Other policies
  • 7. Subsidiarity
  • 8. Openness
  • 9. Quality of Community legislation
  • 10. Simplification and consolidation of the Treaties
• III.AN EFFECTIVE AND COHERENT EXTERNAL POLICY
  • 1. Common foreign and security policy
  • 2. External economic relations
• IV.THE UNION'S INSTITUTIONS
  • 1. The European Parliament
  • 2. The Council
  • 3. The Commission
  • 4. The Court of Justice
  • 5. Other institutional matters
  • 6. Role of the national parliaments
  • 7. Closer cooperation - "Flexibility"
• CONCLUSION
• ASSESSING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE COMMISSION'S OBJECTIVES FOR THE IGC (Comparative table)
  • EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
  • COMMISSION
  • COUNCIL
  • COURT OF JUSTICE
  • COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
  • ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
  • COURT OF AUDITORS
  • NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
  • COMMITTEE PROCEDURE
  • FLEXIBILITY
  • COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICE AND DEFENCE
  • COMMERCIAL POLICY
  • LEGAL PERSONALITY OF THE UNION
  • FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
  • NON-DISCRIMINATION
  • JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS
  • FRAUD AGAINST THE COMMUNITY'S FINANCIAL INTERESTS
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • SOCIAL POLICY
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • PUBLIC HEALTH
  • CONSUMER PROTECTION
  • OPENNESS
  • SUBSIDIARITY
  • OUTERMOST AND ISLAND REGIONS
  • PUBLIC SERVICES
  • SIMPLIFICATION OF THE TREATIES

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