Translation of "Überarbeitung des vertrages" in English

Hopefully it is going to be expanded upon in the revision of the Treaty.

The revision of the infrastructure rail siding agreement with the ÖBB’s infrastructure division shall be completed soon.

Title XXI was added to the EC Treaty in the revision resulting from the Treaty of Nice.

I must also draw the attention of Members to paragraph 10, which argues that in the next Treaty revision, we should seek to introduce qualified majority voting in this particular area.

While awaiting the outcome of the revision of the Treaty, the European Commission has proposed such a reform in its 11 December 2002 proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 1999/468/EEC.

It put forward a draft chapter, hoping that this will be taken into consideration when the Treaty is revised in 1996.

Although I am supporting the proposals for revising the treaty put forward by Mr Rolf Linkhor in his motion for a resolution, I want to reaffirm loud and clear that our objective must be nothing short of incorporation of Euratom into the general treaty on which the European Community is founded.

I wish therefore to express my disagreement with the approach taken by the Council, which involves turning specific obliga­tions for employers into general objectives to be pursued, thereby undermining requirements for the protection of" health and safety that have now been in place since 1989.

Parliament is a budgetary authority and the Commission, on the basis of the Treaties, must only execute the decisions taken by this budgetary authority.

Since we are against a general charter for the fundamental rights and freedoms for EU citizens, we cannot accept that the report on journalists' confidential treatment of sources and officials' right to speak publicly be included in such a charter.

As I have said earlier, and it is also in the Blueprint presented by the Commission, for further steps to achieve the goals, yes, we will need later a treaty revision. [10]

It is possible that we might deal with all of these questions, which in themselves should not require very much time, given that the political agreements have already been reached, but there is no certainty of this. Yesterday, we visited President Chirac and the new French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, and they both assured us that everything had been done to reconcile the fact that the stability pact cannot be withdrawn - something which the new government is also against - but on the other hand, the new government has noted an imperfection, namely that the question of employment has not been sufficiently taken into account.

It is not just the completion of the technical process of Treaty revision.

Let me finish with a few words on the Treaty review process.

When overhauling the Treaty, did they really respond to disappointed expectations?

A further revision of the TEU isfinalised.

The exact timing depends on the com­pletion of the current Inter­governmental Conference (IGC) updating the Maastricht Treaty.

It is hoping that future revisions of the Treaty will confer this right.

Could this requirement be deleted when the Treaty is reviewed in 1996?

We are constantly being told that a minimum revision of the Treaty is needed and that its potential must be fully exploited.

It was specifically proposed by the Commission in its opinion on the review of the Maastricht Treaty and it supports the move to a rights-based approach which as I have said is the cornerstone really of the Commission's communication on disability strategy.

Mr President, it would have been more appropriate in political terms if this report had been dealt with after the review of the Maastricht Treaty.

Secondly, an undertaking should be made to insert a specific title into the Treaty at the next revision, as was said at the European Study Days held in Naples in 1996.

Furthermore, a series of own-initiative reports were produced on points of principle, such as the Perry-Kessler report on the right of petition at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Mr Gemelli's report on strengthening the right of petition with a view to a revision of the EC Treaty, and Mr de Rossa's report, which contained your committee's contribution to the Convention.

A further point of contention is the revision of the Treaty of Nice, which has not even been given the chance to prove itself in practice.

Therefore, on behalf of the Thule survivors, and in the hope of future work to review the Treaty, I commend the report to you, unamended.

However, there is little likelihood of a Euratom revision in the immediate future whereas concerns about environmental protection are a reality and need addressing.

He said that the EESC would continue to call for more democracy, openness and the greater involvement of the European public in the treaty revision process.

We consider that the Conference should focus on necessary changes, without embarking on a complete revision of the Treaty.

The European Parliament must participate fully, and notably on the basis of its draft constitution, in the urgent replacement of the Maastricht Treaty.