European Union

Treaties

From this page you can access the basic legal texts on which the European Union and the European Communities are founded: the founding Treaties (original versions and later updatings), the amending Treaties, the Accession Treaties for each of the six enlargements, plus other essential documents.

Founding treaties
Accession treaties
Other treaties and protocols

Consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Official Journal C 83 of 30.3.2010

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Official Journal C 83 of 30.3.2010

Consolidated version of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community
Official Journal C 84 of 30.3.2010

Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, signed at Lisbon, 13 December 2007
Official Journal C 306 of 17 December 2007
- Treaty on European Union
- Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

From 1st December 2009 date of entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty:

The title of the ‘Treaty establishing the European Community’ is replaced by ‘Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Treaty of Lisbon article 2§1)

Articles, sections, chapters, titles and parts of the Treaty on European Union and of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union are renumbered (Treaty of Lisbon article 5 and Annex)

Tables of equivalences:

Official Journal C 83 of 30.3.2010

Founding treaties

Treaty on European Union (1992)
Official Journal C 191 of 29 July 1992
Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (1957)
Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (1951)

Consolidated versions

Consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Official Journal C 83 of 30.3.2010
Consolidated version of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community
Official Journal C 84 of 30.3.2010

Consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Official Journal C 115 of 9 May 2008

EUROPEAN UNION — CONSOLIDATED VERSIONS OF THE TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION AND OF THE TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (consolidated text)
Official Journal C 321E of 29 December 2006

Treaty establishing the European Community (consolidated text)
Official Journal C 325 of 24 December 2002
Treaty on European Union (consolidated text)
Official Journal C 325 of 24 December 2002
Treaty establishing the European Community (Consolidated version 1997)
Official Journal C 340 of 10 November 1997
Treaty on European Union (Consolidated version 1997)
Official Journal C 340 of 10 November 1997
Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Non-official consolidated version 1996)
Treaty establishing the European Community (Consolidated version 1992)
Official Journal C 224 of 31 August 1992

Accession treaties

Documents concerning the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union (2005)
Official Journal L 157 of 21 June 2005
Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (2003)
Official Journal L 236 of 23 September 2003
Appendices to Annexes IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
Official Journal C 227 E of 23 September 2003
Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden (1994)
Official Journal C 241 of 29 August 1994
Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden (Adaptation decision 1995)
Official Journal L 1 of 1 January 1995
Accession of Spain and Portugal (1985)
Official Journal L 302 of 15 November 1985
Accession of Greece (1979)
Official Journal L 291 of 19 November 1979
Accession of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom (1972) * Not available in English
Official Journal L 73 of 27 March 1972
Accession of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom (Adaptation decision 1973)
Official Journal L 2 of 1 January 1973

Other treaties and protocols

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Official Journal C 83 of 30.3.2010
Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, signed at Lisbon, 13 December 2007
Official Journal C 306 of 17 December 2007
- Corrigenda – Procès-verbal of rectification to the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, signed at Lisbon on 13 December 2007
  Official Journal C 290 of 30 November 2009

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Official Journal C 303 of 14 December 2007

Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
Official Journal C 310 of 16 December 2004
Treaty of Nice
Official Journal C 80 of 10 March 2001
Treaty of Amsterdam
Official Journal C 340 of 10 November 1997
Single European Act (1986)
Official Journal L 169 of 29 June 1987
Greenland Treaty (1984)
Official Journal L 29 of 1 February 1985
Protocol on the Statute of the European Investment Bank (1975)
Official Journal L 91 of 6 April 1978
Treaty amending certain financial provisions (1975)
Official Journal L 359 of 31 December 1977
Treaty amending certain budgetary provisions (1970) * Not available in English
Official Journal L 2 of 2 January 1971
Merger Treaty (1965) * Not available in English
Official Journal 152 of 13 July 1967

Protocol (No 36) on the privileges and immunities of the European Communities (1965)
Official Journal C 321E, 29.12.2006

Protocol on the Netherlands Antilles (1962) * Not available in English
Official Journal 150 of 1 October 1964