European Union - Eighth Report
Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 16 May 2000.
CONTENTS
REPORT
PART 2: BACKGROUND
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
The European Convention on Human
Rights
The founding Treaties
The Court of Justice
Political initiatives
Accession to the ECHR
Treaty amendments - building in a human rights
perspective
Comités des Sages
EU Human Rights Policy - the Internal Dimension
EU Human Rights Policy - the External Dimension
The current initiative
PART 3: EVIDENCE
The preparation of the Charter
Involvement of civil society
National Parliaments
Procedure
The need for the Charter
The current position
The procedural deficit
General reactions
The status of the Charter
Enforceable rights
Incorporation in the Treaties
The constitutional dimension
The scope of the Charter
On whom should the Charter impose obligations?
To what extent if any would the rights enunciated
in the Charter apply to non-EU Citizens?
The three pillars
The content of the Charter
A high level of protection
Economic and social rights
Relationship with the European Convention
on Human Rights
The risk of divergence
The accession question
The two courts
The impact of enlargement
PART 4: OPINION
The status of the Charter
Filling the gaps
(i) accountability of the institutions
(ii) the standing rules
(iii) the Third Pillar
Relationship with the ECHR
(i) incorporating civil and political
rights into the Charter
(ii) accession
Scope and content of the Charter
(i) economic and social rights
(ii) beneficiaries
(iii) who should be bound
External dimension—enlargement
The procedure—the Convention
Conclusion
Appendix 1—Membership of the Sub-Committee
Appendix 2—List of Witnesses
ORAL EVIDENCE
Professors Christopher McCrudden, Sandra Fredman and Mark Freedland,
University of Oxford
Written evidence
Professors McCrudden and Fredman
Oral evidence, 16 February 2000
Mr Timothy Kirkhope MEP
Oral evidence, 23 February 2000
Lord Bowness CBE DL, Mr Win Griffiths MP
Oral evidence, 23 February 2000
Mr Andrew Duff MEP
Oral evidence, 1 March 2000
Immigration Law Practitioners Association, JUSTICE, Liberty
and Statewatch
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 8 March 2000
Supplementary written evidence from the Immigration Law Practitioners
Association
Mr H C Krüger, Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe
Oral evidence, 22 March 2000
Advocate General Francis Jacobs, European Court of Justice
Oral evidence, 29 March 2000
Mr Keith Vaz MP, Minister for Europe
Oral evidence, 5 April 2000
Lord Goldsmith QC
Oral evidence, 5 April 2000
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
Bar Council International Relations Committee, Bar Human Rights
Committee and Bar European Group
Professor A E Boyle, University of Edinburgh
Ms E Bribosia and Me. D Waelbroeck, Free University Brussels (ULB)
British Institute of Human Rights
Confederation of British Industry
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
The Fair Trials Abroad Trust
Professor J Frowein, University of Heidelberg
Professor G Gaja, University of Florence
International Commission of Jurists
The Newspaper Society
Dr Gerard Quinn, National University of Ireland
Professor H G Schermers, University of Leiden
Professor Spiros Simitis, Frankfurt University
Standing Committee of Experts on International Immigration, Refugee
and Criminal Law, the Netherlands
Professor A G Toth, University of Strathclyde
NOTE: Pages of the Report and Appendices are numbered in bold
type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References
in the text of the Report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of the Report or Appendices or to a page
of evidence
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