ABSTRACT
J the various Accession Treaties expanding the original Community territorially; J the Merger Treaties 1965; J the Single European Act 1986 (which put in place the processes to eventually achieve
the Common Market);
J the Treaty on European Union 1992 (which created the Union and its three-pillar structure);
J the Amsterdam Treaty 1997 (which rationalised the existing structure and renumbered the original TFEU);
J the Treaty of Nice 2000 (which focused on institutional reform); J the Treaty of Lisbon, which was introduced in place of the rejected Constitutional
Treaty (has introduced further institutional reform as well as amending both the TEU and the EC Treaty and renaming the latter as the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)).
