1. The European Union established by this Treaty shall be the successor to the
European Union established by the Treaty on European Union and to the European
Community.
2. Until new provisions have been adopted in implementation of this Treaty or until
the
end of their term of office, the Institutions, bodies, offices and agencies existing on the
date of the entry into force of this Treaty shall, subject to the provisions of Article IV-3a,
exercise their powers within the meaning of this Treaty in their composition on that date.
3. The acts of the Institutions, bodies, offices and agencies adopted on the basis
of the
treaties and acts repealed by Article
IV-2 shall remain in force. Their legal effects shall be
preserved until those acts are repealed, annulled or amended in implementation of this
Treaty. The same shall apply to agreements concluded between Member States on the
basis of the treaties and acts repealed by Article IV-2. The other components of the acquis of the Community and of the Union existing at the
time of the entry into force of this Treaty, in particular the interinstitutional agreements,
decisions and agreements arrived at by the Representatives of the Governments of the
Member States, meeting within the Council, the agreements concluded by the Member
States on the functioning of the Union or of the Community or linked to action by the
Union or by the Community, the declarations, including those made in the context of
intergovernmental conferences, as well as the resolutions or other positions adopted by
the European Council or the Council and those relating to the Union or to the Community
adopted by common accord by the Member States, shall also be preserved until they
have been deleted or amended.
4. The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities and of the Court
of
First Instance on the interpretation and application of the treaties and acts repealed by
Article
IV-2, as well as of the acts and conventions adopted for their application,
shall
remain, mutatis mutandis, the source of interpretation of Union law and in particular of
the comparable provisions of the Constitution. 5. Continuity in administrative and legal procedures undertaken prior to the date
of entry
into force of this Treaty shall be ensured in compliance with the Constitution. The
Institutions and bodies responsible for those procedures shall take all appropriate
measures to that effect.
