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Valentin Schröder Institutionen der Integration Anhang A-6
A-6.3 Abschrift der Informationen zur Dokumentation unterschiedlicher Rechtsformen
in Prelex
Die folgende Abschrift habe ich am 22.10.2009 unter http://eurlex.europa.eu/en/droit_communautaire/droit_communautaire.htm#1.3.3
abgerufen.
Process and players
1. The documentary holdings
1.1 The treaties
1.2 International agreements
1.3 Secondary legislation
1.4 Consolidated legislation
1.5 Preparatory material
1.6 Case-law
1.7 Parliamentary questions
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1. The documentary holdings
The documentary holdings in the EUR-Lex system comprise more than 410 000 documents and
allow multilingual access to legal acts of many different types, such as treaties, secondary legislation,
international agreements, preparatory acts, case-law and parliamentary questions.
1.1. The treaties
1.1.1. Introduction
The treaties constitute the European Union’s ‘primary legislation’, which is comparable to constitutional
law at national level. They thus lay down the fundamental features of the Union, in particular
the responsibilities of the various actors in the decision-making process, the legislative
procedures, under the Community system and the powers conferred on them. The treaties themselves
are the subject of direct negotiations between the governments of the Member States, after
which they have to be ratified in accordance with the procedures applying at national level (in
principle by the national parliaments or by referendum).
Besides the two fundamental treaties, the Treaty establishing the European Community and the
Treaty on European Union, the EUR-Lex system provides access to the Euratom Treaty, the
Accession Treaties and other treaties and protocols.
1.1.2 Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
This deserves special mention: approved by the Heads of State or Government on 18 June 2004
and signed on 29 October 2004, the treaty has yet to be ratified by the 25 Member States of the
European Union before it enters into force.
The essential features of the Constitutional Treaty are as follows:
inclusion in the text of the Treaty of the Charter of Fundamental Rights,
a new definition of the European Union to replace the current ‘European Community’
and ‘European Union’,
a clearer presentation of the distribution of powers between the Union and the Member
States,
a revised institutional framework, clarifying the respective roles of the European Parliament,
the Council and the Commission,
more effective decision-making procedures,
making the system more democratic and transparent.
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