ABSTRACT
PRIMARY LEGISLATION One of the main characteristics of the EU legal order is that it is based on a written constitution made up of the constitutive Treaties as follows:
ECSC Treaty (1951) EC Treaty (1957) EURATOM Treaty (1957) Convention Relating to Certain Institutions Common to European
Communities (1957) Merger Treaty (1967)
First and Second Budgetary Treaties (1970 and 1975) Treaties of Accession (1973, 1981, 1986, 1995 and 2003) Single European Act (1986) Treaty on European Union (1992) Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) Treaty of Nice (2001)
European Coal and Steel Community Treaty (ECSC) Established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951, the purpose of the European Coal and Steel Community was to create a common market for coal and steel products.
