This treaty transfers major domestic policy responsibilities to the Community and withdraws them from the national parliaments' direct legislative competence. Supranational competence in these areas is conferred on the Council, which only has indirect democratic legitimacy, while the European Parliament does not acquire any significant powers of codecision.
En este Tratado se traspasan a la Comunidad competencias esenciales de política interior, se retira la competencia legislativa directa de los parlamentos nacionales y se pone en manos del Consejo, que tiene una legitimidad democrática indirecta, y no se concede al Parlamento Europeo ningún poder de codecisión digno de mención.