Fundamental Rights Charter

HC Deb 23 May 2000 vol 350 c412W

Mr. Flight

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the implications for the British legal systems of the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the Treaty of European Union. [121896]

Mr. Vaz

The Cologne Conclusions state that the question ofwhether and if so how the Charter should be integrated into the Treaties will be considered only once the drafting body has presented its draft before the European Council in December.