Welcome to the Lisbon Treaty website!

The purpose of this website is to provide information about the implications of the Lisbon Treaty for the EU’s development cooperation policy.

This website includes a consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty, including expert analysis of the articles which are relevant to the EU’s external actions with a special focus on development cooperation.

Click here for an overall introduction to the Lisbon Treaty as well as a brief overview of its structure and a simple guide to navigating through this website. 

Click here for a visual guide to the structure of the Lisbon Treaty.

In addition to comments and analysis about various articles in the Lisbon Treaty, this website also includes the following features:

• information about the ratification process;
• a news section providing up-to-date information about the ratification process;
• links to the previous European treaties;
• a link to an archived website about the development cooperation aspects of the unratified Constitutional Treaty;
• a collection of documents relating to the Lisbon Treaty and EU development cooperation;

Disclaimer

All article numbers referred to in this website correspond to the article numbers as prescribed in the version of the Lisbon Treaty which was published in Official Journal of the European Union, C 306, Volume 50, on 17 December 2007.

In May 2008, the Council of the EU published a consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty. The numbering of the articles in the consolidated version differs from that of the version dating from December 2007.

We apologise for the confusion and we will endeavour to align the numbering of the articles on this website with those in the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty in the near future.