Descriptive note on the instruments available to the European Union and the Community for the exercise of their competences, forwarded to the Members of the Convention by the Praesidium on 15 May 2002. The document was intended to serve as a basis for the debate of the Convention on 23 and 24 May 2002 on how the missions of the Union should best be carried out.

Table showing the development of qualified majority voting in the Council of the European Union since the entry into force, on 1 January 1958, of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.

Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.

Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission, as amended by Council Decision 2006/512/EC of 17 July 2006.