Chronology of the Meetings of the Charter Convention

• Author: Coghlan, Niall; Steiert, Marc
• Pages: 43-46

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Full Convention

meeting

Representatives of

the Heads of State

and Government

- Meeting

Representatives

of the National

Parliaments

- Meeting

Representatives

of the European

Parliament

- Meeting

Document

Reference

(CHARTE unless

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Agenda Substance/Comments

17 December

(1999) – (Plenary)

4105/00 1st Convention Meeting. Election of the chairman

Roman Herzog, Discussion on working methods

and the name of the Convention.

1-2 February

(Plenary)

4134/00 SN 1169/00 2nd Convention Meeting. Approves Praesidium’s

17 January proposals on working methods.

Important debate on the nature of the rights

proposed in the draft list. Additional rights

proposed. Lord Goldsmith proposes Charter

structure in 2 parts.1

24-25 February

(Working Group

– ‘WG’)2

4147/00 SN 1538/00 3rd Convention Meeting. Focus on 15 February

draft CHARTE 4123/1/00 REV 1. Focus on

relation to ECHR and structure.3

2-3 March (WG)44154/00 SN 1745/00 4th Convention Meeting. Approves Praesidium’s

working methods. Working on 15, 24 & 28 February

drafts.

20-21 March

(Plenary)

4218/00

(verbatim note)

SN 1949/00 5th Convention Meeting. Méndez de Vigo and

Jansson chairing. Reviewing articles 1-15 of 8

March draft. Initial strong resistance to procedure.

27-28 March (WG) 4208/00 SN 2057/00 6th Convention Meeting. Méndez de Vigo

Chairing.5 24 February, 20 March drafts analysed.

Protest about EUCO-demanded acceleration to

work (draft for June meeting of the European

Council/EUCO).

1 Norbert Bernsdorff and Martin Borowsky, Die Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union Handreichungen und Sitzungsprotokolle (Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002), pp.124-133.

2 The only difference between working groups and plenaries was that alternatives had the right to speak at the former even where their corresponding full member was present: see

CHARTE 4134/00.

3 Bernsdorff/Borowsky (fn1), pp.134-148.

4 Jürgen Meyer and Markus Engels, The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Work of the Convention: A Collection of Documents (2nd edn) (Bundestag 2002) records this

as having occurred on 2-3 March: p.335.

5 See CHARTE 4209/00.

2. Chronology of the Meetings of the Charter Convention

CHRONOLOGY OF THE MEETINGS OF THE CHARTER CONVENTION