The High Contracting Parties declare that the first of the arrangements for application of the agreements between management and labour at Community level — referred to in Article 118b(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community — will consist in developing, by collective bargaining according to the rules of each Member State, the content of the agreements, and that consequently this arrangement implies no obligation on the Member States to apply the agreements direcdy or to work out rules for their transposition, nor any obligation to amend national legislation in force to facilitate their implemenution.
Dearbhaíonn na hArdpháirtithe Conarthacha gurb é a bheidh sa chéad cheann de na socruithe chun na comhaontuithe idir na comhpháirtithe sóisialta a chur i bhfeidhm ar leibhéal an Chomhphobail — dá dtagraítear in Airteagal 118b(2) den Chonradh ag bunú an Chomh­phobail Eorpaigh — inneachar na gcomhaontuithe a fhorbairt tri chómhargáil i gcomhréir le rialacha gach Ballstáit, agus dá bhíthin sin nach mbeidh sé le tuiscint ón socrú sin go bhfuil aon oibleagáid ar na Ballstáit na comhaontuithe a chur i bhfeidhm go díreach ná rialacha a leagan amach dá dtrasuí, ná aon oibleagáid an reachtaíocht náisiúnta atá i bhfeidhm a leasú chun a gcur chun feidhme a éascú.