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British opt-out

Campaign booklet for the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Photo: www.etuc.org)

British opt-out

In the frame of the 2007 negotiation on the Lisbon Treaty, the British government succeeded in having a special protocol allowing the UK to derogate from the new legally binding Charter of fundamental rights. 

The implications are not yet known as British citizens will still be able to seize the European Court to have their fundamental rights established by concrete verdicts.

Formally the Charter is only reflecting existing rights and principles from the European Human Rights Convention, from the common constitutional traditions of the member states and from the EU legal framework as developed by the European Court.

See Protocol 15, 19, 20, 21 and 30 for British derogations.

See Protocol 17, 22, 32 and 34 for Danish derogations

See also British and Danish opt-ins 

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