
Key Reference Texts

Key Documents
EUROPEAN UNION
Final Documents
- Treaties (Treaty establishing the European Community, Treaty on the European Union, Treaty of Nice)
- Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, 18 June 2004 (EU Charter of Fundamental Rights incorporated as Part Two of the text)
- EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, December 2000
- Explanations relating to the complete text of the EU Charter, December 2000
Working Documents
- Explanations relating to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Annex 10, 18 June 2004
- Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, 18 July 2003 (EU Charter of Fundamental Rights incorporated as Part Two of the text)
- Updated Explanations relating to the Text of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, 18 July 2003
- Updated Explanations relating to the text of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, 9 July 2003
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
- European Convention on Human Rights and Additional Protocols
- European Social Charter
- European Social Charter (Revised)
- European Social Charter website
- Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
- European Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data
UNITED NATIONS
- The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court





