The "European Treaties" series includes `conventions`, `agreements`, `charters`, codes, `framework conventions` and `framework conventions`. All of these instruments are treaties within the meaning of the Vienna Convention. Secondly, the Court of Justice has shown that the Community Treaty is fundamentally different from other international conventions, pointing out that the Community therefore grants effective rights to every citizen14, not just to Member States or Community institutions14. It is indeed a decisive criterion that would certainly not be met by the mechanisms typical of international conventions to settle disputes between States parties over its interpretation or application. Moreover, it is not the national courts, but the Court of Justice, which have the final say on the interpretation and validity of Community acts. This will ensure a uniform and uniform interpretation of these legislative acts in all Member States. · Compared to traditional international organisations, the European institutions have particular characteristics. The Council can vote by qualified majority and take binding decisions for The Member States without the need to implement them. The Commission is independent of the Member States and has an almost exclusive right to initiate legislation. The European Parliament is elected by direct universal suffrage and shares with the Council a genuine right of co-decision for a large part of the legislation and for the budget. The Court of Justice is independent and its decisions are binding on the Member States. On the other hand, the ERC Treaty, although in the form of an international agreement, nevertheless constitutes the constitutional charter of a community of the rule of law. As the Court has always held, The Community Treaties have created a new legal order for which States have restricted their sovereign rights in increasingly broad areas whose themes include not only Member States, but also their nationals (see in particular van Gend en Loos [1963] ECR 1).

The main characteristics of the Community order thus established are, in particular, its primacy over the law of the Member States and the direct effect of a whole range of provisions applicable to their nationals and to the Member States themselves." The EU`s external action is set out in Title V of the Treaty on european Union and Part 5 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE). The procedure for negotiating and adopting international agreements is defined in Articles 207 and 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union for the Common Trade Policy and Other Foreign Policy Areas.