Court Decision Regarding the Competence to Assume International Obligations by the Community

The Court in its decision concerning Cases 3, 4 and 6/76, Cornelis Kramer and Others, which were adjudicated together, states that: “To determine, in a specific case, whether the Community has the competence to assume international obligations, both the system of Community law and its substantive provisions must be taken into account. Such competence stems not only from an explicit conferral by the Treaty, but may equally arise implicitly from other provisions of the Treaty, from the Act of Accession, and from measures adopted, within the framework of those provisions, by the Community institutions”.