Most of them came from the single European act.

You know Single European Act or whatever.

It was mentioned in the treaties for the first time in the Single European Act (see below).

Since its creation, it has operated under changing set of rules that were standardised with Single European Act and is now in its 2007-2013 period.

However, it provided an impetus for the negotiations which led to Single European Act of 1986 and the Maastricht Treaty of 1992.

Thatcher signed one of the most integrationist measures (the single European act) while Major resisted the most integrationist measure - the euro.

The Single European Act, that entered into force in 1987, institutionalised the goal of completing the internal market with a total borders opening, by 31 December 1992.

This, the oldest trick in any bazaar, dragged Mrs Thatcher into Maastricht's predecessor, the Single European Act.

The Single European Act in 1985 reaffirmed the need to make concrete progress towards European unity in accordance with the Stuttgart declaration.

The Single European Act disappointed many federalists because it tended to codify practices which had developed since 1958, rather than to reform the EC in any radical way.

The treaties of 1986 (Single European Act) and 1992 (Maastricht) merely extended the aegis of the disgraceful Rome Treaty to ever more areas of government.

The Maastricht Treaty built upon the Single European Act and the Solemn Declaration on European Union in the creation of the European Union.

Yet she did compromise over the budget at Fontainebleau in 1984, signed the Single European Act in 1986, and accepted the Delors proposals for budgeting and agriculture reform in 1988.

In the Single European Act of 1986 there is a proviso that 'the institutions of the Community shall take care not to prejudice the internal or external financial stability of the member states'.

Article 1 of the Single European Act reads: The European Communities and European political Cooperation shall have as their objective to contribute together to making concrete progress towards European unity.'

Cameron, with his public opinion behind him, still believes in the Europe of the single European act, a trading confederacy in which relations between states are governed not by a super-bureaucracy but by negotiation and adjustment.

The changeover to majority voting may be dated back to the Council of Ministers' new rules of procedure from July 1987 and the Single European Act' s majority provisions for the internal market.

There can be no doubt about the positive role of initiatives taken in the 1980s, beginning with the 1985 White Paper, followed by the setting of a date and simplification of the legislative process through the single European act.

More recently, they have been amended and supplemented by the Single European Act, signed in 1986, and still more recently, though subject to ratification, by the Treaty on European Union, signed at Maastricht in February 1992.

She was a member of the cabinet which took Britain into the EEC in 1973, campaigned enthusiastically for a Yes vote in the 1975 referendum and as prime minister pushed one of the most integrationist measures - the single European act.

The accord followed a decision reached in July by the European Court of Justice that waste was not necessarily a "commercial good", and could thus be exempted from the principle of free movement of such goods, as enshrined in the Single European Act.

Acknowledging that she had supported the Single European Act of 1986, the treaty that set up the European single market and was a precursor to the Maastricht Treaty, Lady Thatcher said she now viewed her support for that measure as a "fundamental" error.

He emphasised the fact that, under the Single European Act, some majority voting had been introduced in order to ensure that the single market worked effectively, but that he was very critical of the case being proposed for further extensions of competence, for example in the social field.

The decision to proceed to a currency union and accordingly revise the Rome Treaty was reached on political grounds, just as was the case with the signing of the original Treaty of Rome, the creation of the EMS and the ratification of the Single European Act.

One of the concrete achievements which created de facto solidarity was the concept of economic and social cohesion established in the Single European Act of 1986, in connection with which I had the honour to participate in the negotiations and which I signed in my capacity as Prime Minister of Portugal.