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TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE
PART-III: THE POLICIES AND FUNCTIONING OF THE UNION
TITLE-V: THE UNION'S EXTERNAL ACTION
CHAPTER-IV: COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES AND HUMANITARIAN AID
SECTION-1: DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
ARTICLE III-316
ARTICLE III-316
1.
Union policy in the field of development cooperation shall be conducted within the framework of the principles and objectives of the Union's external action. The Union's development cooperation policy and that of the Member States shall complement and reinforce each other.
Union development cooperation policy shall have as its primary objective the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty. The Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries.
2. The Union and the Member States shall comply with the commitments and take account of the objectives they have approved in the context of the United Nations and other competent international organisations.