HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS:

Mr. Hans VAN DEN BROEK, Minister for Foreign Affairs;

THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC:

Mr. Pedro PIRES DE MIRANDA, Minister for Foreign Affairs;

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND:

Mrs. Lynda CHALKER, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs;

WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows.

TITLE I

Common provisions

Article 1

The European Communities and European political cooperation shall have as their objective to contribute together to making concrete progress towards European unity.

The European Communities shall be founded on the Treaties establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and on the subsequent treaties and acts modifying or supplementing them.

Political cooperation shall be governed by Title III.

The provisions of that Title shall confirm and supplement the procedures agreed in the reports of Luxembourg (1970), Copenhagen (1973), London (1981), the Solemn Declaration on European Union (1983) and the practices gradually established among the Member States.

Article 2

(Repealed) (*)

* See Article P (2) TEU.

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