Translation of "Inscription constitutive " (French → English) :

(c) through the introduction of a European citizens’ initiative a direct democratic instrument is enshrined in the Constitution, allowing citizens to submit proposals on matters where they consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Constitution;

(j) the inclusion of the symbols of the Union in the Constitution will improve awareness of the Union's institutions and their action;

The report on the draft Treaty establishing a European Constitution welcomes the prospect of a new constitutional order, binding on the Member States, based on supranational decision-making procedures and, for the first time, the enshrinement in the Treaty of the superiority of Community law over the national constitutions and laws.

"At a time when the Convention on the future of Europe has just proposed including sport in the future European constitution, and with 2004 being the European Year of Education through Sport, the European Commission wishes to demonstrate, through this action involving young European sportsmen and women, that it is in favour of sport as a carrier of educational, social and citizenship values and promotes a European sporting model based on solidarity between professional and amateur sport", said Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner responsible for sport.

The whole process that Canada went through to patriate our Constitution and to enshrine a Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a significant event in our history, but it was also a political event.

In 1972 a decree of the President of the Republic introduced an administrative charge for the registration in the register of companies of various company documents (formation, increase of capital, extension of the company's duration, change of the company's objects or type, merger etc); the amount varied according to the form of the company for the instrument of incorporation and there was a single rate for other documents.