PART ONE

PRINCIPLES

Article 1

By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a  EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.

Article 2 ( * )

( * ) As amended by Article G( 2 ) TEU.

The Community shall have as its task, by establishing a common market and an  economic and monetary union and by implementing the common policies or activities  referred to in Articles 3 and 3a, to promote throughout the Community a harmonious  and balanced development of economic activities, sustainable and non inflationary  growth respecting the environment, a high degree of convergence of economic  performance, a high level of employment and of social protection, the raising of the  standard of living and quality of life, and economic and social cohesion and  solidarity among Member States.

Article 3 ( ** )

( ** ) As amended by Article G(3) TEU.

For the purposes set out in Article 2, the activities of the Community shall include,  as provided in this Treaty and in accordance with the timetable set out therein:

a. the elimination, as between Member States, of customs duties and quantitative  restrictions on the import and export of goods, and of all other measures having  equivalent effect;
b. a common commercial policy;
c.an internal market characterized by the abolition, as between Member States, of  obstacles to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital;
d. measures concerning the entry and movement of persons in the internal market  as provided for in Article 100c;
e. a common policy in the sphere of agriculture and fisheries;
f. a common policy in the sphere of transport;
g. a system ensuring that competition in the internal market is not distorted;
h. the approximation of the laws of Member States to the extent required for the  functioning of the common market;
i. a policy in the social sphere comprising a European Social Fund;
j. the strengthening of economic and social cohesion;
k. a policy in the sphere of the environment;
l. the strengthening of the competitiveness of Community industry;
m. the promotion of research and technological development;

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