TEC, TEU and TFEU - EUabc

In the previous Nice Treaty, the abbreviation TEC was often added after an Article to distinguish its articles from TEU-articles of the Treaty on European Union ... Categories Agriculture Budget Constitution ConsumerProtection Countries Courtcaselaw Culture Decision-making DemocracyandTransparency DevelopmentPolicy EconomicandMonetaryAffairs Education EmploymentandSocialAffairs Enlargement Environment Equality EUOrganisationsandAgencies Fisheries ForeignandSecurityPolicy HealthandFoods HistoryandPersonalities Industries InformationSociety Institutions InternalMarket JusticeandHomeAffairs Lobbyists,SocialPartnersandNGO's Programmes RefugeesandImmigrants RegionalAffairs ResearchandTechnology TradePolicy Transport Treaties,ConstitutionalAffairsandFundamentalRights A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z TEC,TEUandTFEU TEC,TEUandTFEU Intheprevious NiceTreaty, theabbreviationTECwasoftenaddedafteran Articletodistinguishitsarticlesfrom TEU-articlesoftheTreatyonEuropeanUnion,referring tothesecondandthirdpillarinthesametreaty. The LisbonTreaty amendedthe TreatyonEuropeanUnion (TEU)and the TreatyEstablishingtheEuropeanCommunity (TEC). The TEUhaskeptitsprevious title.TheTEChasbeenrenamedthe “Treaty ontheFunctioningoftheUnion” -TFEU.  Theword“Community”hasbeenreplacedbytheword “Union”throughoutthetreaties.  TheUnionhasonesingle legalpersonality,  Whereastheterm“Community”hasdisappearedentirely withthenewTreaty,itssupranational“communitarian”conceptappliestoboth theTEUandtheTFEU. Links EuropeanTreaties: http://europa.eu/abc/treaties/index_en.htm   Share |