Idet nogle konventsmedlemmer fremhævede det regionale plan og andre det lokale plan, var medlemmerne fuldstændig enige om at anerkende betydningen af den regionale og lokale dimension i Europa, og der var bred enighed om, at dette forhold medtages i forfatningens første artikler, som det bl.a. blev foreslået i Europa-Parlamentets Napolitano-rapport.
Members of the Convention were unanimous in recognising the importance of the regional and local dimension in Europe, with varying degrees of emphasis on the regional and local levels, and there was strong consensus that this reality should be recognised in the opening articles of the Constitution, as the European Parliament's Napolitano report in particular had proposed.