PURPOSE: to apply the Protocol on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU to Poland and to the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic.
PROPOSED ACT: Draft Protocol on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to the Czech Republic.
CONTENT: the Heads of State or Government, meeting within the European Council on 29 and 30 October 2009, agreed that they would, at the time of the conclusion of the next Accession Treaty and in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, attach to the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union a Protocol concerning the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to the Czech Republic.
The draft Protocol stipulates that the Protocol on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to Poland and to the United Kingdom shall apply to the Czech Republic.
The draft under examination accepts the decision of the Heads of State or Government.