These procedures now seem likely to be included in the treaty text.
The treaty text was finally agreed in September 1987.
Following the preamble the treaty text is divided into six parts.
He called up the treaty text and got a hard copy, sat back, studied, and thought.
Yet his stomach told him something else as he read over the treaty text with its dry, precise words.
None of these can be offered until amendments to the treaty text are disposed of.
A 1978 protocol contains modifications to the original 1973 treaty text.
It looked like a serious blow to the European project, as foreign ministers rejected any initiative to renegotiate the treaty text.
The Presidency is right to have focussed this debate not on the treaty text, but on its context.
Remember how many said that an EU of 27 would never be able to agree a treaty text again.