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Document 12012E288

    Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
    PART SIX - INSTITUTIONAL AND FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
    TITLE I - INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS
    Chapter 2 - Legal acts of the Union, adoption procedures and other provisions
    Section 1 - The legal acts of the Union
    Article 288
    (ex Article 249 TEC)

    OJ C 326, 26.10.2012, p. 171–172 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tfeu_2012/art_288/oj

    26.10.2012   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 326/1

    CONSOLIDATED VERSION OF THE TREATY ON THE FUNCTIONING OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

    PART SIX

    INSTITUTIONAL AND FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

    TITLE I

    INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

    CHAPTER 2

    LEGAL ACTS OF THE UNION, ADOPTION PROCEDURES AND OTHER PROVISIONS

    SECTION 1

    THE LEGAL ACTS OF THE UNION

    Article 288

    (ex Article 249 TEC)

    To exercise the Union's competences, the institutions shall adopt regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions.

    A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

    A directive shall be binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which it is addressed, but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods.

    A decision shall be binding in its entirety. A decision which specifies those to whom it is addressed shall be binding only on them.

    Recommendations and opinions shall have no binding force.

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