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CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Proposal for Resolution No 7/XII
This motion for a resolution approves the European Council Decision of March 25
of 2011, amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
with regard to the establishment of a stability mechanism for Member States whose
currency is the euro.
In this Decision is added a paragraph 3 to Article 136 of that Treaty, according to the
which Member States whose currency is the euro may create a mechanism of
stability to be actioned if this proves indispensable to safeguard the stability of the
area of the euro as a whole. In agreement still with this Decision, the granting of any
financial assistance required under the stability mechanism will be subject to
strict conditionality.
The Decision in question is adopted on the basis of Article 48 (6) of the Treaty of the Union
European, respecting the amendment provided for in a provision contained in Part III of the Treaty
on the Functioning of the European Union, to which it does not increase the assigned competences
to the European Union by the Treaties.
Thus:
Under the terms of the paragraph d) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the
Assembly of the Republic the following motion for a resolution:
CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Approve the European Council Decision of March 25, 2011 amending Article 136.
of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to a mechanism
of stability for the Member States whose currency is the euro, the text of which, in the version
authenticated in the Portuguese language, it publishes in attachment.
Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of October 13, 2011
The Prime Minister
The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs
The Deputy Minister and Parliamentary Affairs