the present Structural Funds regulations;
DECLARE their willingness to modulate the levels of Community
participation in the context of programmes and projects of the
Structural Funds, with a view to avoiding excessive increases in
budgetary expenditure in the less prosperous Member States;
RECOGNIZE the need to monitor regularly the progress made towards
achieving economic and social cohesion and state their willingness to
study all necessary measures in this respect;
DECLARE their intention of taking greater account of the contributive
capacity of individual Member States in the system of own resources,
and of examining means of correcting, for the less prosperous
Member States, regressive elements existing in the present own
resources system;
AGREE to annex this Protocol to the Treaty establishing the European
Community.

PROTOCOL
ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE
OF THE REGIONS
THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES
HAVE AGREED upon the following provision, which shall be annexed
to this Treaty establishing the European Community:
The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the
Regions shall have a common organizational structure.

PROTOCOL
ANNEXED TO THE TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION AND TO THE
TREATIES ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,
HAVE AGREED upon the following provision, which shall be annexed
to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaties establishing the
European Communities:
Nothing in the Treaty on European Union, or in the Treaties
establishing the European Communities, or in the Treaties or Acts
modifying or supplementing those Treaties, shall affect the application
in Ireland of Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution of Ireland.

FINAL ACT
1. The Conferences of the Representatives of the Governments of the
Member States convened in Rome on 15 December 1990 to adopt by
common accord the amendments to be made to the Treaty
establishing the European Economic Community with a view to the
achievement of political union and with a view to the final stages of
economic and monetary union, and those convened in Brussels on 3
February 1992 with a view to amending the Treaties establishing
respectively the European Coal and Steel Community and the
European Atomic Energy Community as a result of the amendments
envisaged for the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community have adopted the following texts:
I
the Treaty on European Union
II