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PRESS RELEASE
2 March 2000

CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: PARLIAMENT INCREASES PRESSURE ON IGC

The European Parliament report by Andrew Duff (UK, ELDR) and Johannes Voggenhuber (Austria, Greens/EFA), on the Charter of Fundamental Rights was adopted on Tuesday by the Constitutional Affairs Committee.

The Report makes three key proposals:

• The Charter must be integrated into the Treaty and be legally binding;
• The European Union should obtain legal personality and accede to the European Convention of Human Rights;
• The Charter must be justiciable in the European Court of Justice.

Andrew Duff said:

"I am gratified that 90% of what the rapporteurs wanted has found its way into the final Report. I am also encouraged by the strong cross-party support shown in Committee for the Report. The Report sets the framework for the work of the Convention. It is now necessary to sell the concept of the Charter within the Member States."

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in the European Parliament since 1999

Andrew is Vice-President of the European Parliament delegation to the Constitutional Convention on the Future of Europe.

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Andrew drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights which has strengthened the rights of all the citizens of the European Union.

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