TEU. The Union shall conduct the common foreign and security policy by:
TEU. The Council shall adopt decisions which shall define the approach of the Union to a particular matter of a geographical or thematic nature. Member States shall ensure that their national policies conform to the Union positions.
TEU. The diplomatic and consular missions of the Member States and the Union delegations in third countries and international conferences, and their representations to international organisations, shall cooperate in ensuring that decisions defining Union positions and actions adopted pursuant to this Chapter are complied with and implemented. They shall step up cooperation by exchanging information and carrying out joint assessments. They shall contribute to the implementation of the right of citizens of the Union to protection in the territory of third countries as referred to in Article 20(2)(c) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and of the measures adopted pursuant to Article 23 of that Treaty.
TEU. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy shall regularly consult the European Parliament on the main aspects and the basic choices of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy and inform it of how those policies evolve. He shall ensure that the views of the European Parliament are duly taken into consideration. Special representatives may be involved in briefing the European Parliament. [X2The European Parliament may address questions or make recommendations to the Council or the High Representative.] Twice a year it shall hold a debate on progress in implementing the common foreign and security policy, including the common security and defence policy.
TEU. The Union may conclude agreements with one or more States or international organisations in areas covered by this Chapter.
TEU. The implementation of the common foreign and security policy shall not affect the application of the procedures and the extent of the powers of the institutions laid down by the Treaties for the exercise of the Union competences referred to in Articles 3 to 6 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Similarly, the implementation of the policies listed in those Articles shall not affect the application of the procedures and the extent of the powers of the institutions laid down by the Treaties for the exercise of the Union competences under this Chapter.
TEU. [F11 This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages, the texts in each of these languages being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Italian Republic, which will transmit a certified copy to each of the governments of the other signatory States.] 2 This Treaty may also be translated into any other languages as determined by Member States among those which, in accordance with their constitutional order, enjoy official status in all or part of their territory. A certified copy of such translations shall be provided by the Member States concerned to be deposited in the archives of the Council.
TEU. 1 Eurojust's mission shall be to support and strengthen coordination and cooperation between national investigating and prosecuting authorities in relation to serious crime affecting two or more Member States or requiring a prosecution on common bases, on the basis of operations conducted and information supplied by the Member States' authorities and by Europol. In this context, the European Parliament and the Council, by means of regulations adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, shall determine Eurojust's structure, operation, field of action and tasks. These tasks may include: a the initiation of criminal investigations, as well as proposing the initiation of prosecutions conducted by competent national authorities, particularly those relating to offences against the financial interests of the Union; b the coordination of investigations and prosecutions referred to in point (a); c the strengthening of judicial cooperation, including by resolution of conflicts of jurisdiction and by close cooperation with the European Judicial Network. These regulations shall also determine arrangements for involving the European Parliament and national Parliaments in the evaluation of Eurojust's activities.
TEU. 1 The Union shall establish police cooperation involving all the Member States' competent authorities, including police, customs and other specialised law enforcement services in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offences.
TEU. Just as with its sister provisions in the EU Treaties, Art. 3 EEA has come to play an integral part in the development of the EEA le- gal system. It applies in all fields covered by the EEA Agreement, and is linked to all EEA rules and provisions through its reference to attainment of the Agree- ment’s objectives. As such, it saturates the entire EEA Agreement, providing a “keystone which supports the EEA edifice, without which the construction might crumble”.1 2 The multifaceted and dynamic nature of the duties imposed by the provision nevertheless makes it challenging to attempt to catch all of its many actual and potential applications in a concise, systematized approach. The first potential difficulty is purely terminological, as both the ECJ and the EFTA Court have referred to the various duties entailed by these provisions in many different terms.2 Whilst much can probably be said about the differences in emphasis (if not perhaps substance) between loyalty and sincere cooperation, since both EEA Courts appear to treat the terms synonymously, for reasons of convenience, we shall do the same in the following.3 3 The second difficulty is more conceptual, as the principle of loyalty or sin- cere cooperation may be seen as in certain parts analogous and/or closely linked 1 Almestad, ‘The Essentials’, in: The EFTA Court (ed.), The EEA and the EFTA Court – Decen- tred Integration (Xxxx, 2014), 299-309, 305. 2 Prior to its current wording as a duty of “sincere cooperation” under Arts. 4(3) and 13(2) TEU, the ECJ had at times previously referred to earlier corresponding Treaty provisions as establish- ing a “duty of loyal cooperation and assistance” (see e.g. Case C-374/89, 19. 2.1991, Commis- sion v. Belgium, para. 15), and a “duty of loyalty” (Case C-459/03, 30.5.2006, Commission v. Ireland (MOX Plant), para. 168). The EFTA Court for its part has referred to Art. 3 EEA as en- tailing “loyal cooperation” (Case E-7/97, 30.4.1998, ESA v. Norway, para. 16), a “duty of loyal- ty” (Case E-18/11, 28.9.2012, Irish Bank, para. 58) and a “principle of loyalty” (Case E-24/15, 2.6.2016, Xxxxxx, para. 41). 180 xxxxx://xxx.xxx/10.57F7r1a/9n78k3l8i4n5275796-180 to (yet not necessarily synonymous with) a number of other EU/EEA legal prin- ciples. As we shall see, certain aspects of the specific duties imposed could rightly be viewed as mere expressions of the public international law principle of pacta sunt servanda – such as where Art. 3 is used to play a “gap-filling” ro...
