CONTENTS
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| Preface | V |
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| Notes on the Text | VII |
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| Amsterdam - Key Issues | XI |
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| Legislative Procedures | XIII |
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| Economic and Monetary Policy | XX |
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| 'Competences' agreed at Amsterdam | XXX |
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| Development of Community Powers from the Treaty of Rome to Amsterdam | XLIII |
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| Treaty of European Union | 1 |
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| Contents of Treaty by Subjects | 3 |
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| Consolidated Treaty on European Union | |
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| Preamble | 5 |
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| Title I - Common Provisions | 7 |
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| Title V - Common Foreign and Security Policy | 10 |
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| Title VI - Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters | 15 |
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| Title VII - Closer Co-operation | 19 |
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| Title VIII - Final Provisions | 20 |
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| Consolidated Treaty establishing the European Community | |
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| Title II - Treaty establishing the European Community | 23 |
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| Protocols | 95 |
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| Treaty of Amsterdam | 159 |
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| Declarations of the Treaty of Amsterdam | 173 |
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| Appendices | |
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| Index | 189 |
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| Inter-Institutional Agreement on the financing of the Common Foreign and Security Policy | 191 |
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| Resolutions by the European Council adopted at Amsterdam | |
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| Resolution on the Stability and Growth Pact | 193 |
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| Resolution on Growth and Employment | 195 |
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| Resolution on the new ERM | 197 |
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| Additional Documents from the Treaty of Amsterdam | |
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| Minutes of the Signing | 199 |
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| Declarations on Article 35 of the Treaty on European Union | 199 |
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| Resolution by the European Parliament on the Treaty of Amsterdam | 200 |
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| Act concerning the election of the Representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage | 205 |
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| Council Decision on the Communities' System of Own Resources | 209 |
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| Decision of the European Parliament of 9 March 1994 on the performance of the Ombudsman's Duties | 214 |
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| Council Decision of 1 January 1995 on the Order of Presidency of the Council | 218 |
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| EMU and the Growth and Stability Pact | |
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| Council Regulation on the introduction of the Euro | 219 |
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| Council Regulation on certain provisions relating to the introduction of the Euro | 224 |
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| Council Regulation on the strenthening of the surveillance of budgetary positions and the surveillance and co-ordination of economic policies | 227 |
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| Council Regulation on speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure | 232 |
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| Opinion of the Monetary Committee on the content and format of stability and convergence programmes, endorsed by the Council on 12 October 1998 | 238 |
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| Council Opinion of 8 February 1999 on the Convergence programme of the UK, 1997-1998 to 2003-2004 | 241 |
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| Treaty of Accession of the UK to the European Union | |
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| Act concerning the conditions of accession and the asjustments to the Treaties regarding the UK's accession to the EU in 1972 | 243 |
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| Protocol 3 from the Act of Accession, 1972 concerning the Channel Islands | 250 |
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| Exchange of letters regarding Economic and Monetary Union, 1972 | 251 |
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| Index | 253 |
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| Table of Equivalances | 262 |