European Magna Charta of Universities

Great Green Document on Human Rights in the Age of the Masses

Magna Carta [ Great Charter | Great Paper | Magna Carta Libertatum | Great Charter of Freedoms ]

Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers [ Charter of fundamental social rights ]

Charter for the management of intellectual property from public research institutions and universities | European Intellectual Property Charter | IP Charter

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of 5 November 1992

Charter of European Cities & Towns Towards Sustainability | Aalborg Charter

Most fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter do not only apply to EU Citizens, but are of great importance for the protection of all people living in the EU, whether they are Union Citizens or not.

The Lisbon Treaty, by recognising the rights, freedoms and principles set out in the Charter and giving the Charter the same binding legal force as the Treaties, has offered citizens more visible and legally secure rights.

Considers that the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the European Union still fail to take fully into account of, and to comply with, the rules and the changes provided for in the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights when applying Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, especially as concerns participatory democracy; notes and welcomes the recent judgments of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice in the Digital Rights Ireland and Schrems cases, in both of which the Court based itself on the Charter when declaring in ...[+++]valid the Data Retention Directive and the Safe Harbour Decision , respectively; stresses that actual public access to documents and the management of registers of documents need to be based on standards that comply adequately with Articles 41 and 42 of the Charter.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 62012CA0293 - EN - Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 April 2014 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Ireland (Ireland) and the Verfassungsgerichtshof (Austria)) — Digital Rights Ireland Ltd (C-293/12) v Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, The Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, Ireland and the Attorney General, and Kärntner Landesregierung, Michael Seitlinger, Christof Tschohl and Others (C-594/12) (Electronic communications — Directive 2006/24/EC — ...[+++]Publicly available electronic communications services or public communications networks services — Retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of such services — Validity — Articles 7, 8 and 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) // (Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12) - ( // ((Electronic communications - Directive 2006/24/EC - Publicly available electronic communications services or public communications networks services - Retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of such services - Validity - Articles 7, 8 and 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union))