This consolidated version of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe is a provisional version prepared for information purposes on the sole responsibility of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference.  It does not commit either the institutions or the Member States of the European Union.

This text represents the provisional consolidated version of CIG 50/03 together with its corrigenda, as well as documents CIG 81/04 and CIG 85/04, as approved by the Intergovernmental Conference on 18 June 2004. The Secretariat has also incorporated in it the necessary adjustments to the definition of a qualified majority in cases where only some Council members have the right to vote (see text in italics on page 7 of CIG 85/04). 1

The Protocols are contained in an Addendum 1 to the present document and the Declarations in an Addendum 2.

In preparation for signature, the text of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe has still to be edited by the Council's Legal/Linguistic Experts in the 21 languages in which it will be authentic within the meaning of Article IV-10 of the said Treaty. Editing will begin at the end of June and be completed at the end of October 2004.

Finally, it should be noted that the Intergovernmental Conference agreed on continuous numbering of the text of the Constitution using arabic numerals, with the proviso that, in order to accentuate the division of the Constitution into four parts, the arabic numerals will be accompanied in each case by a Roman numeral corresponding to the relevant part.  The Council's Legal/Linguistic Experts will carry out the renumbering exercise and check the accuracy of all cross­references between articles and paragraphs.