Clauzele „Drepturile Omului” în acordurile externe ale Comunităţii Europene
The Human Rights Clauses in the European Community’s Foreign Agreements

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the contents of human rights clauses in the EC’s foreign agreements – a recent technique used for the first time in the development policy. Under a decision by the Council of Ministers from 11 May 1992, the inclusion of provisions concerning human rights and the principles of a market economy was to be the rule for all cooperation or association agreements concluded between the European Communities and CSCE member or partner states. All partnership and cooperation agreements subsequently entered into contain at least one politically conditioning clause. The same system of clauses was used in three types of agreements – European agreements with states in Central and Eastern Europe, association and stability agreements with states in the Western Balkans, and partnership and cooperation agreements with the new independent states which were formerly part of the USSR. These agreements contain several types of human rights clauses: an essential elements clause, a Baltic clause, a Bulgarian clause, sometimes supplemented by interpretive statements.

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