Tratados Unión Europea

TREATIES OF ROME

1957

Formed by the European Economic Community (EEC) and European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) to created a common market.

Treaty of Brussels

1965

ECSC, EEC and EURATOM was replaced by the Commission of the European Communities. Each community shared common institutions and known as the European Communities.

SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT

1986

Create a single market (remove non-tariff barriers to cross-borders intra-community trade) and a forerunner of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

MAASTRICHT TREATY

1992

Foundation treaty of the European Union. Introduction of a single currency, common foreign and security policies and shared European citizenship.

TREATY OF AMSTERDAM

1997

It made substantial changes to the treaty of Maastricht. Member states agreed transfer certain powers from national governments to the European Parliament across diverse areas, adopting civil and criminal laws and enacting common foreign and security policy.

TREATY OF NICE

2001

Reformed the institutional structure of the European Union to withstand eastward expansion, that was originally intended to do in the Amsterdam Treaty. The enter into force was in doubt for a time, because of the rejection of Irish voters. New replaced weighted voting system.

TREATY OF LISBON

2007

Changes: move from unanimity to qualified majority voting in at least 45 policy areas in the Council of Ministers, a change in calculating such a majority to a new double majority, more powerful European Parliament, a consolidate legal personality for the EU and the creation of a long term President of the European Council. To complete the process started by the treaty of Amsterdam and treaty of nice.