1. Convention members will find attached the report by the working party of experts nominated by the Legal Services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission with a view to making technical adjustments to EC and EU Treaty provisions for insertion into Part Two of the Constitutional Treaty.

This is a purely technical exercise which is intended to facilitate the political discussion without prejudging or influencing the Convention's decisions.

2. In accordance with the mandate issued to it on 29 January 2003 (CONV 529/03), the working party of experts has in particular:
- inserted into the provisions of Part Two the amendments resulting essentially from the conclusions of the Working Group on the simplification of legislative procedures and instruments;
- ascertained the future of the various TEC and TEU provisions in terms of the preliminary draft Constitutional Treaty in accordance with the outline presented in October 2002 (CONV 369/02), thereby merging the two Treaties and reorganising the provisions;
- harmonised the language of the various legal bases from a technical point of view;
- deleted some Articles, either as a follow-up to Convention discussions or on the
grounds that they had become obsolete.

In line with the request made in their mandate, the working party also provided the Praesidium with suggestions for subsequent technical simplifications and various regroupings in Part Two which it considered appropriate. On the same basis, the working party confined itself to purely technical amendments and made no other amendments, particularly with regard to decision-making procedures, where no guidelines had been agreed in the Convention or which had not yet been decided on by the Praesidium and the Convention.

3. The draft text of Part Two, drawn up by the working party of experts based on the preliminary draft Constitutional treaty of 28 October 2002, is set out below as Volume 1. This volume contains, in Annex I, "terminological and typographic conventions" and, in Annex II, a number of suggestions and comments made by the working party of experts which will be useful for further work on Part Two.

This document also contains a Volume II, likewise drawn up by the working party of experts and containing, by way of illustration, the amendments made to the current provisions of the EC and EU Treaties before the merging and reorganisation of these within Part Two, so that Convention members can identify the amendments more readily.

Neither of the two Volumes contains the section on economic and monetary policy (Title VII of the TEC). Given the technical nature of the subject, the working party of experts thought it necessary to conduct a more in-depth examination. This Title will be the subject of an addendum for distribution to Convention members very shortly.

To see both volumes (357 pages) click: http://european-convention.eu.int/docs/Treaty/cv00602.en03.pdf.