Suggestions for amendments to the text of the Articles of the Treaty
AMENDMENT FORM
Suggestion for amendment of Article I-7:
By Ms Sandra Kalniete
Status: Member
The Charter shall be annexed to the Constitutional Treaty as a Protocol.
1. The Charter of Fundamental Rights shall be an integral part of the Constitution. The Charter is set out in a Protocol annexed to this Constitutional Treaty.
Explanation (if any):
The Union is a specific entity which is legally based on several Establishing treaties. Taking into account that the constitutional issues in the EU are decided on the basis of the agreement between the Member States in the form of treaties, the new Treaty should be defined as a Constitutional Treaty.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights itself consists of more than 50 articles and it is thus not practical to include the entire text of the Charter into the body of the Constitutional Treaty text. Given the orderly structure of the Constitutional Treaty and the laconic nature of its text, the Charter of Fundamental rights should be annexed to the Treaty as a protocol.
To provide a unified implementation of the provisions of the Charter, the Commentary should be elaborated.