Whereas it is an essential feature of the legal system set up by the Treaties establishing the Communities that certain of their provisions and certain acts of the Community institutions are directly applicable, that Community law takes precedence over any national provisions conflicting with it, and that procedures exist for ensuring the uniform interpretation of this law; and whereas accession to the Communities entails recognition of the binding force of these rules, observance of which is indispensable to guarantee the effectiveness and unity or Community law,
ker je bistvena lastnost pravnega sistema, uvedenega s Pogodbami o ustanovitvi Skupnosti, da se nekatere določbe in nekateri akti, ki so jih sprejele institucije Skupnosti, neposredno uporabljajo, da ima pravo Skupnosti prednost pred katerimi koli nacionalnimi določbami, ki bi utegnile biti v nasprotju z njim, in da obstajajo postopki za zagotavljanje enotne razlage teh predpisov; ker pristop k Skupnostim pomeni priznavanje obvezujoče narave teh predpisov, upoštevanje katerih je nujno za zagotavljanje učinkovitosti in enotnosti prava Skupnosti,