EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

HC Deb 07 February 2001 vol 362 c567W

Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 23 January 2000,Official Report, column 554W, on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which person, body or state proclaimed the adopted charter; what statements relating to the charter were signed at Nice and by whom; and if all political declarations made at European councils and in ratified treaties are those of an agreed and collective policy. [148313]

Mr. Vaz

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights was proclaimed by the three institutions—the Council, the European Parliament, and the Commission on 7 December 2000.

A statement saying that the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission solemnly proclaim the text below as the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union

was signed by the Presidents of the European Commission and European Parliament and by the French Foreign Minister on behalf of the Council.

A Declaration on the future of the Union, agreed at the Nice European Council, calls for the status of the Charter to be considered at the next IGC in 2004.