Key Pre-Charter Convention Documents
The First Path - Institutional Resolutions, Calls and Drafts in relation to a Charter of Rights
- 1973 OJ C26/7 Resolution on the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of Member States' Citizens when Community Law is Drafted (Jozeau-Marigné Report)
- 1975 OJ C179/28 Resolution on European Union
- COM (76) 37 The protection of fundamental rights as Community law is created and developed. Report of the Commission submitted to the European Parliament and the Council
- Annex to COM (76) 37 The problems of drawing up a catalogue of fundamental rights for the European Communities. A study requested by the Commission - Report annexed to COM (76) 37
- 1977 OJ C103/1 Joint Declaration by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission Concerning the Protection of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- 1984 OJ C77/33 Draft Treaty Establishing the European Union (Spinelli Report)
- 1989 OJ C120/51 Resolution adopting the 'Declaration of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
- ISBN 92-826-0975-5 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers (adopted by 11 Members)
- 1991 OJ C183/473 Resolution on Union Citizenship
- 1994 OJ C61/155 Resolution on the Constitution of the European Union
- ISBN 92-827-7697-2 For a Europe of civic and social rights: Report by the Comité des Sages
- 1997 OJ C371/99 Resolution on the Amsterdam Treaty
- Koalitionsvereinbarung zwischen der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands und Bündnis 90/Die GRÜNEN
- P4_CRE(1999)01-12(1) Speech by the President of the Council of the European Union Joschka Fischer, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Priorities of the German Council Presidency
- ISBN 92-828-6605-X Affirming fundamental rights in the European Union: time to act (Simitis Report)
- 2000 OJ C54/93 Resolution on the Establishment of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
The Second Path - Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights
- 1979 OJ C127/70 Resolution on the accession of the European Community to the European Convention on Human Rights
- COM (79) 210 Memorandum on the accession of the European Communities to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- 1982 OJ C304/253 Resolution embodying the opinion of the European Parliament on the memorandum on adhesion to the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms
- SEC (90) 2087 Commission Communication on Community accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and some of its Protocols
- Opinion 2/94 Opinion 2/94 - Accesion of the Community to the ECHR
The Judicial Origins of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
- ECLI:EU:C:1969:57 Judgment of 12 November 1969, C-29/69, Erich Stauder v City of Ulm-Sozialamt
- ECLI:EU:C:1970:114 Judgment of 17 December 1970, C-11/70, Internationale Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel
- ECLI:EU:C:1974:51 Judgment of 14 May 1974, C-4/73, J. Nold, Kohlen- und Baustoffgroßhandlung v Commission of the European Communities
- BVerfGE 37, 271-305 BVerfG, Beschluss vom 29. Mai 1974 ('Solange I') - 2 BvL 52/71 -, BVerfGE 37, 271-305
- ECLI:EU:C:1975:137 Judgment of 28 October 1975, C-36/75, Roland Rutili v Ministre de l'intérieur
- ECLI:EU:C:1979:290 Judgment of 13 December 1979, C-44/79, Liselotte Hauer v Land Rheinland-Pfalz
Fundamental Rights in the Treaties, from the Single European Act to Amsterdam (1986 - 1997)
Annex