Il est vrai que quelques nouvelles bases juridiques semblaient reconnaître, dans la Constitution, des compétences apparemment nouvelles, mais il s'agissait surtout de domaines dans lesquels l'Union agissait déjà à travers l'utilisation d'autres articles, y compris l'article 308.
It is true that, in the Constitution, some new legal bases seemed to recognise what were apparently new competencies, but these were essentially areas in which the Union was already taking action through the use of other articles, including Article 308.