ABSTRACT
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, HER MAJESTY THE
QUEEN OF DENMARK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUB-
LIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SPAIN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE
FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, THE PRE-
SIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE
GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF
THE NETHERLANDS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE
REPUBLIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,
MOVED by the will to continue the work undertaken on the basis of the
treaties establishing the European communities and to transform relations as a
whole among their states into a European union, in accordance with the solemn
declaration of Stuttgart of 19 June 1983,
RESOLVED to implement this European Union on the basis, firstly, of the
Communities operating in accordance with their own rules and, secondly, of
European cooperation among the signatory States in the sphere of foreign
policy and to invest this Union with the necessary means of action,
DETERMINED to work together to promote democracy on the basis of the fundamental
rights recognised in the constitutions and laws of the Member States, in the Convention for the
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the European Social Charter,
notably freedom, equality, and social justice, [emphasis added]
CONVINCED that the European idea, the results achieved in the fields of
economic integration and political cooperation, and the need for new develop-
ments correspond to the wishes of the democratic peoples of Europe, for whom
the European Parliament, elected by universal suffrage, is an indispensable
means of expression,
AWARE of the responsibility incumbent upon Europe to aim at speaking ever
increasingly with one voice and to act with consistency and solidarity in order more effectively to
in particular to display the
Human Rights to which they are
so that together they may make their own contribution to the preservation of
international peace and security in accordance with the undertaking entered
into by them within the framework of the United Nations Charter, [emphasis
added]
DETERMINED to improve the economic and social situation by extending
common policies and pursuing new objectives, and to ensure a smoother func-
tioning of the Communities by enabling the institutions to exercise their powers
under conditions most in keeping with Community interests,
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HAVE DECIDED to adopt this Act and to this end have designated as their
Plenipotentiaries:
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1. By judgment of 11 April 1989, which was received at the Court on 16
August 1989, the Monomeles Protodikeio Thessaloniki [Thessaloniki Regional
Court], in proceedings for interim measures, referred to the Court for a pre-
liminary ruling under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty several questions on the
interpretation of the EEC Treaty, in particular Articles 2, 3(f), 9, 30, 36, 85, and
86, and also of Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for November 1950 in order to
determine the compatibility with those provisions of a national system of exclusive
television rights.
