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European Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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By the Rome treaties of March 25, 1957, which established the European Economic Community (EEC or common market) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), five major institutions were created to serve the Communities. Three of these organs, the Assembly, the Court of Justice, and the Economic and Social Committee, were to be the same for both Communities, under the conditions respectively laid down in the two treaties, while the other two institutions, the Council and the Commission, were to remain separate. According to the Convention which dealt with the institutions common to the Communities, the Assembly was to replace the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and the Court of Justice was to replace the Court provided for in the treaty establishing ECSC. The Economic and Social Committee was to serve only EEC and Euratom since ECSC was already served by a comparable body, the Consultative Committee.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities III. Political and Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Spring 1959 , pp. 335 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation and Cambridge University Press 1959

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1 This summary is based on the following sources: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and connected documents, Brussels, Secretariat of the Interim Committee for the Common Market and Euratom; Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and connected documents, Brussels, Secretariat of the Interim Committee for the Common Market and Euratom; and The New York Times, March 26, 1957.Google Scholar

2 See above, p. 336, for the Commission' role in this respect.Google Scholar

3 Bulletein from the European Community for Coal and Steel, April–May 1957 (No. 23), p. 5.Google Scholar

4 For further information on the functions of Euratom's Council, see the section below on the Commission of Euratom.

5 See above p. 336, for information on referring cases to the court.Google Scholar