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The Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights has been signed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. At this stage the three institutions have recognised the political value of the document within the Union’s framework of action.
If the objective is to make existing rights more visible, however, certain of the rights that are proclaimed in the Charter are already found in international conventions or in national constitutional traditions. The fact that these rights are set out in the Charter does not change the legal value they have irrespective of the existence of the Charter, since the basis of their observance in Union law rests on Article 6(2) of the Treaty on European Union. The fact that the rights have been formulated in the Charter thus does not affect their value.
Regarding the question of whether the Charter is to be regarded as legally binding in all respects, in December 2000 – as the honourable Member knows – the Intergovernmental Conference in Nice approved a declaration concerning the future of the Union which specifies that the question of the status of the Charter is one of the issues to be taken up in conjunction with the preparatory work to be carried out before 2004.
It was agreed that when this work has been carried out a new Intergovernmental Conference would be convened to discuss the status of the Charter, amongst other things."@en1
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