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Document 11997E136
Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)#Part Three: Community policies#Title XI: Social policy, education, vocational training and youth#Chapter 1: Social Provisions#Article 136#Article 117 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)#Article 117 - EEC Treaty
Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)
Part Three: Community policies
Title XI: Social policy, education, vocational training and youth
Chapter 1: Social Provisions
Article 136
Article 117 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
Article 117 - EEC Treaty
Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)
Part Three: Community policies
Title XI: Social policy, education, vocational training and youth
Chapter 1: Social Provisions
Article 136
Article 117 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
Article 117 - EEC Treaty
In force
11997E136
Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) - Part Three: Community policies - Title XI: Social policy, education, vocational training and youth - Chapter 1: Social Provisions - Article 136 - Article 117 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) - Article 117 - EEC Treaty
Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0239 - Consolidated version
Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0045 - Consolidated version
(EEC Treaty - no official publication available)
Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) Article 136 The Community and the Member States, having in mind fundamental social rights such as those set out in the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, shall have as their objectives the promotion of employment, improved living and working conditions, so as to make possible their harmonisation while the improvement is being maintained, proper social protection, dialogue between management and labour, the development of human resources with a view to lasting high employment and the combating of exclusion. To this end the Community and the Member States shall implement measures which take account of the diverse forms of national practices, in particular in the field of contractual relations, and the need to maintain the competitiveness of the Community economy. They believe that such a development will ensue not only from the functioning of the common market, which will favour the harmonisation of social systems, but also from the procedures provided for in this Treaty and from the approximation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action.