The French Socialist Party may well have just saved ratification of the European Union s draft Constitutional Treaty by France in next summer s referendum. At the beginning of December, party members and supporters voted overwhelmingly in favor of the treaty.

Draft article 18 Special treaty provisions

We encounter obstacles such as the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty in two referendums.

The Constitutional Court decides about the abrogation of laws or of their individual provisions if they are in contradiction with a constitutional law or international treaty.

In operative paragraph 15 replace the phrase to develop a draft treaty with the phrase to agree to a draft treaty .

The process of bringing a treaty to a government and a parliament for ratification and accession necessarily involved subjecting the treaty to extensive constitutional, legislative and jurisprudential scrutiny.

The Constitutional Treaty adopted by the European Union provided for the establishment of a fully fledged common asylum system.

At a European level, the provisions of the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union institutionally strengthen equality, which is generally conceived as a value of the Union, while, more specifically, the promotion of gender equality remains one of the Union's aims as has already been established in the Amsterdam Treaty.

B. DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON REPORTS OF TREATY BODIES AND REPORTS

If public opinion polls are to be believed, on May 29 the French will reject the European Union s draft constitutional treaty. Because all EU member countries must ratify the constitution, a French Non will, in effect, kill it.

The Constitutional Treaty provides solid foundations for our shared future. Peace, security, and prosperity are as vulnerable as they are valuable.

Fourthly, draft article 18, which gave all special treaty provisions precedence over the draft articles, was somewhat inconsistent with draft article 17.

In February 2005, the countries of Central Asia finalized the draft treaty.

In my country, Argentina, each province can, in accordance with a constitutional mandate, draft its own traffic legislation.

We now stand at the threshold of a new phase of European cooperation. In late October, the EU's Constitutional Treaty will be signed.

Indeed, from the start, the architects of the Union's Constitutional Treaty never seriously expected that their draft would endure in the form in which they wrote it. Instead, they saw themselves as following Europe's long established pattern of step by step integration.

Paris The European Union s Lisbon treaty was initially greeted with enthusiasm, pride, and even hubris. It promised a more realistic and reasonable way forward than the ill fated constitutional treaty that it replaced, and many of its supporters also hoped that a central feature of its predecessor the notion of constitutional patriotism was still alive.

Draft article 2 set out definitions of the terms treaty and armed conflict .

It will then submit the draft law for consideration by the People's Assembly in accordance with standard constitutional procedures

It is essential to reaffirm the normative essence of the Constitutional Treaty to protect the greatest achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Diversity and inclusiveness, through the integration of European democracies with a common project, remains Europe s great gift to the world.

Meanwhile, the draft treaty and constitution were being circulated around Tokelau for further discussion.

The second unresolved question is how to achieve a banking union in legal terms. Constitutional change on this scale would normally require a new European treaty.

Maybe the time has come to formally introduce such a draft treaty in the CD?

Its implementation will require a constitutional law, which the Government undertakes to draft with a view to its adoption by Parliament.

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Draft article 1 posed no problems, but the definitions of the terms treaty and armed conflict in draft article 2 called for comment.

The Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and the Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO are fully familiar with the constitutional difficulties that Colombia has encountered in becoming a State party to the Treaty.

In some cases it became clear that a reservation was necessary in order to harmonize the treaty obligations with the constitutional and legal framework of the State.

In 2001, Irish voters rejected the Nice Treaty, which threw the EU into a protracted period of crisis and introspection, which ended only with agreement on the so called Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Almost immediately, however, French and Dutch voters rejected that Treaty, bringing the negotiations back to square one.

Colombia reaffirms once again its unquestionable commitment to the spirit and letter of the Treaty and our willingness to propose formulas aimed at overcoming those constitutional impediments, which exclusively involve contributions to the Preparatory Commission before the ratification of the Treaty.

States are encouraged to consider legislative and constitutional changes (when their legal system so permits) which are designed to guarantee that treaty law takes precedence over internal law and that treaty provisions are directly applicable in the internal legal order.

A draft global plan is in preparation, in particular addressing the needs of those treaty bodies which do not benefit from a treaty specific plan of action.

The draft guidelines could be supplemented by draft guidelines concerning the effect of the formulation of a reservation prohibited by the treaty and the effect of the formulation of a reservation incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty.

Since the shock of the French and Dutch no votes against the European Union s proposed Constitutional Treaty, events have followed their inevitable course, but more rapidly than expected.

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Constitutional rights!

In October 2004, the Governor signed into law the Fifth Constitutional Convention, which is scheduled to draft a constitution by 27 July 2006.

In addition, he felt it necessary to record in the draft the Chairman's invitation to participate in the special constitutional workshop in Tokelau.

The result of the constitutional referendum showed that a significant proportion of Iraqis could not support the draft constitution in its current format.

The next step was to put the draft treaty and supporting documents before the New Zealand cabinet.

Draft guideline 3.1.5 seemed to stress the letter of the treaty to the detriment of its spirit.