Law-ref.org TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE
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ARTICLE-I-21: The European Council     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The European Council shall provide the Union with the necessary impetus for its development and shall define the general political directions and priorities thereof. It shall not exercise legislative functions. ...


... by according, as a general rule, priority treatment to activities where freedom of establishment makes a particularly valuable contribution to the development of production and trade; ...


... European framework laws referred to in paragraph 1 shall as a general rule give priority to those services which directly affect production costs or the liberalisation of which helps to promote trade in goods. ...


... Without prejudice to article III-224, European laws shall define the tasks, the priority objectives and the organisation of the structural funds, which may involve grouping the Funds, the general rules applicable to them and the provisions necessary to ensure their effectiveness and the coordination of the Funds with one another and with the other existing Financial Instruments. ...


... Union policy on the environment shall aim at a high level of protection taking into account the diversity of situations in the various regions of the Union. It shall be based on the precautionary principle and on the principles that preventive action should be taken, that environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at source and that the polluter should pay. ...


... European laws shall establish general action programmes which set out priority objectives to be attained. Such laws shall be adopted after consultation of the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee. ...


... shall establish a series of guidelines covering the objectives, priorities and broad lines of measures envisaged in the sphere of transEuropean networks; these guidelines shall identify projects of common interest; ...


... establish the scientific and technological objectives to be achieved by the activities provided for in Article III-249 and lay down the relevant priorities; ...