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.