Treaties of the European Union

The Treaties of the European Union are a set of international treaties between the European Union (EU) member states which sets out the EU's constitutional basis. They establish the various EU institutions together with their remit, procedures and objectives. The EU can only act within the competences granted to it through these treaties and amendment to the treaties requires the agreement and ratification (according to their national procedures) of every single signatory.

Treaties
of the European Union

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Establishing the laws and principles under which the European Union is governed

Two core functional treaties, the Treaty on European Union (originally signed in Maastricht in 1992, The Maastricht Treaty) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (originally signed in Rome in 1957 as the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community i.e. The Treaty of Rome), lay out how the EU operates, and there are a number of satellite treaties which are interconnected with them. The treaties have been repeatedly amended by other treaties over the 65 years since they were first signed. The consolidated version of the two core treaties is regularly published by the European Commission.

Despite the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the bloc in 2020, its name remains officially on some of the treaties (the SEA, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon and all accession treaties between 1972 and 2011) as it was part of the consultation and ratification process as a member state at the time those treaties were drawn up, though the country is no longer legally bound by them itself. This can only be altered by a future amendment to the treaties.

1: on the role of

National Parliaments in the European Union

2: on the application of the principles of and proportionality

subsidiarity

3: on the statute of the

Court of Justice of the European Union

4: on the statute of the and of the European Central Bank

European System of Central Banks

5: on the statute of the

European Investment Bank

6: on the

location of the seats of the institutions and of certain bodies, offices, agencies and departments of the European Union

7: on the privileges and immunities of the European Union

8: relating to Article 6(2) of the Treaty on European Union on the accession of the Union to the

European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

9: on the decision of the Council relating to the implementation of Article 16(4) of the Treaty on European Union and Article 238(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union between 1 November 2014 and 31 March 2017 on the one hand, and as from 1 April 2017 on the other

10: on permanent structured cooperation established by Article 42 of the Treaty on European Union

11: on Article 42 of the Treaty on European Union

12: on the excessive deficit procedure

13: on the

convergence criteria

14: on the

Euro Group

15: on relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

certain provisions

16: on certain provisions relating to Denmark

17: on Denmark

18: on France

19: on the integrated into the framework of the European Union

Schengen acquis

20: on the application of certain aspects of Article 26 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to the United Kingdom and to Ireland

21: on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice

22: on the position of Denmark

23: on external relations of the Member States with regard to the crossing of external borders

24: on asylum for nationals of Member States of the European Union

25: on the exercise of shared competence

26: on services of general interest

27: on the internal market and competition

28: on economic, social and territorial cohesion

29: on the system of in the Member States

public broadcasting

30: on the application of the to Poland and to the United Kingdom

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

31: concerning imports into the European Union of petroleum products refined in the Netherlands Antilles

32: on the acquisition of property in Denmark

33: concerning Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

34: on special arrangements for Greenland

35: on Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution of Ireland

The establishment of the ESM as a "backstop" to the (SRF).

Single Resolution Fund

Reform of ESM Governance

The precautionary financial assistance instruments

Clarifications and expansions of the ESM mandate on economic governance;

European Union law

Constitution of the European Union

– Europa

Summary of EU treaties

– EUR-Lex (Europa)

Treaties of the European Union