Brussels, 19/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament believes that it is essential that the European Union is granted the right of becoming a legal personality and that European Treaties are regrouped in a single text. In asserting that, "It is necessary to put an end to institutional dismemberment and establish a simple structure that is transparent and comprehensible by regrouping the Communities and the existing pillars in a single Union with the right of legal entity", Parliament last week adopted the report by Carlos Carnero Gonzalez, the Spanish Socialist. The report points out that the EU is based on three pillars: the first consists of three communities: the European community; European Community of coal and steel and the European Community of atomic energy; the second, common foreign and security policy, which is part of the European Union treaty; the third pillar, police and legal co-operation in criminal matters, also part of the EU Treaty. Parliament believes that the fact that the European Union is not an effective legal personality in itself, as opposed to the European Communities damages the coherency of the European Union and its place on the world stage. According to the European Parliament, the Union should not simply be accorded the status of a legal personality on a par with the Communities but the Union should be granted the unique right to legal entity, together with the "unification of the treaties in a single coherent European Treaty". The Parliament considers that this is the only way of clarifying that , "the finalisation of political Union requires that the European Union becomes a legal personality". Subsequently, the European Parliament is requesting that the issue be tackled at the next Intergovernmental Conference on institutional reform (previous attempts at institutional reform have not materialised).