1. Official Journal of the European Communities C 364/1, 18 December 2000.
2. See H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, 2nd ed., Oxford 1994, p. 94.
3. See opinion 2/94, Accession of the Community to the ECHR, (1996) ECR I-1759.
4. For the reasons set out by S. Alber, Die Selbstbindung der europäischen Organe an die EU-Charta der Grundrechte, 2001 EuGRZ, pp. 349-353, we do not share the view that the concerted proclamation of the Charter by the Presidents of the three main political institutions of the Communities can be characterized as an interinstitutional agreement, as suggested by F. Benoît-Rohmer, La Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne, 2001 Dalloz, pp. 1483-1492, at 1492
5. E. Bribosia, O. De Schutter, La Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne, 2001 Journal des tribunaux, pp. 281-293, at 283 (who follow a suggestion by the Belgian judge M. Wathelet, La Charte des droits fondamentaux: un bon pas dans une course qui reste longue, 36 (2000) Cahiers de droit européen, pp. 585-593, at 591).