CONTENTS

HEADS           Introduction of signatories
TITLE1          Common Provisions
TITLE2          Provisions Amending the Treaty Establishing the European
                    Ecomonic Community with a View to Establishing the European
                    Community
TITLE3          Provisions Amending the Treaty Establishing the European
                    Coal and Steel Community
TITLE4          Provisions Amending the Treaty Establishing the European
                Atomic Energy Community
TITLE5          Provisions on a Common Foreign & Security Policy
TITLE6          Provisions on Cooperation in the Fields of Justice & Home
                Affairs
TITLE7          Final Provisions
PROTOCOLS       Protocols (broken up into Protocols 1-5 and Protocols 6-17)
Final Act
May of 1992     Declaration on Protocol No. 17, made on the 1st May 1992

Declaration on May First of 1992
On 1 May 1992, in Guimaraes (Portugal), the High Contracting Parties to the Treaty on European Union adopted the following Declaration:

DECLARATION OF THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION

The High Contracting Parties to the Treaty on European Union signed at Maastricht on the seventh day of February 1992, Having considered the terms of Protocol No 17 to the said Treaty on European Union which is annexed to that Treaty and to the Treaties establishing the European Communities, Hereby give the following legal interpretation:

That it was and is their intention that the Protocol shall not limit freedom to travel between Member States or, in accordance with conditions which may be laid down, in conformity with Community law, by Irish legislation, to obtain or make available in Ireland information relating to services lawfully available in Member States.

At the same time the High Contracting Parties solemly declare that, in the event of a future constitutional amendment in Ireland which concerns the subject matter of Article 40.3.3. of the Constitution of Ireland and which does not conflict with the intention of the High Contracting Parties hereinbefore expressed, they will, following the entry into force of the Treaty on European Union, be favourably disposed to amending the said Protocol so as to extend its application to such constitutional amendment if Ireland so requests.

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