PART III: THE POLICIES AND FUNCTIONING OF THE UNION
TITLE III - INTERNAL POLICIES AND ACTION
CHAPTER I - INTERNAL MARKET
SECTION 1 - ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONING OF THE INTERNAL MARKET
ARTICLE III-130
1. The Union shall adopt measures with the aim of establishing or ensuring the functioning of the internal market, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Constitution.
2. The internal market shall comprise an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of persons, services, goods and capital is ensured in accordance with the Constitution.
3. The Council, on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt European regulations
and decisions determining the guidelines and conditions necessary to ensure
balanced progress in all the sectors concerned.
4. When drawing up its proposals for achieving the objectives set out in paragraphs
1 and 2, the Commission shall take into account the extent of the effort that
certain economies showing differences in development will have to sustain for
the establishment of the internal market and it may propose appropriate measures.
If these measures take the form of derogations, they must be of a temporary
nature and must cause the least possible disturbance to the functioning of the
internal market.
ARTICLE III-131
Member States shall consult each other with a view to taking together the steps needed to prevent the functioning of the internal market being affected by measures which a Member State may be called upon to take in the event of serious internal disturbances affecting the maintenance of law and order, in the event of war, serious international tension constituting a threat of war, or in order to carry out obligations it has accepted for the purpose of maintaining peace and international security.
ARTICLE III-132
If measures taken in the circumstances referred to in Articles III-131 and III-436 have the effect of distorting the conditions of competition in the internal market, the Commission shall, together with the Member State concerned, examine how these measures can be adjusted to the rules laid down in the Constitution.
By way of derogation from the procedure laid down in Articles III-360 and III-361,
the Commission or any Member State may bring the matter directly before the
Court of Justice if the Commission or Member State considers that another Member
State is making improper use of the powers provided for in Articles III-131
and III-436. The Court of Justice shall give its ruling in camera.