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TOWARDS A SINGLE PARLIAMENT THE INFLUENCE OF THE ECSC COMMON ASSEMBLY ON THE TREATIES OF ROME 1957-2007 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATIES OF ROME EN Author and document researcher: Franco PIODI Picture researcher: Margret SCHELLING Coordinator: Donato ANTONA The cover photograph shows the first meeting of the Assembly set up by the Rome Treaties and is from the archives of the Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace newspaper in Strasbourg. Unless otherwise specified, all photographs are from the European Parliament archives. © 2007 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR THE PRESIDENCY ARCHIVE AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (CARDOC) [email protected] 1957-2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD BY THE PRESIDENT ............................................................................................................5 PREFACE BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL .............................................................................................7 NOTE TO READERS .....................................................................................................................................9 PART ONE - TOWARDS A SINGLE PARLIAMENT - THE INFLUENCE OF THE ECSC COMMON ASSEMBLY ON THE TREATIES OF ROME I THE COMMON ASSEMBLY AND THE EXTENSION OF THE COMMUNITY ...................13 1. Europe in the 1950s - the road to a common market ............................................................................... 13 (a) The situation in Europe in the 1950s and the first European organisations ................................13 (b) The European Defence Community (EDC) - the first setback .......................................................14 (c) The Common Assembly and the failure of the EDC .......................................................................14 2. The Teitgen resolution .................................................................................................................................. 16 3. Setting up the Working Party ...................................................................................................................... 18 4. The Working Party ........................................................................................................................................ 18 II THE COMMON ASSEMBLY AND THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROME TREATIES ...21 1. The Assembly and the Messina Conference ............................................................................................. 21 2. The Committee of Experts and the Common Assembly ......................................................................... 23 3. The Assembly’s position on the common market in March 1956 .......................................................... 23 4. The Assembly’s position on Euratom in March 1956 ............................................................................... 25 5. Lead-up to the Venice Conference .............................................................................................................. 26 6. Institutional aspects ...................................................................................................................................... 28 7. Social aspects ................................................................................................................................................. 29 III THE COMMON ASSEMBLY AND THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE ..........31 1. The final stage of negotiations .................................................................................................................... 31 2. The Working Party memorandum ............................................................................................................. 32 3. Plenary debate on the progress of negotiations ....................................................................................... 33 4. Steps taken by the ‘European Assemblies’ ................................................................................................ 35 5. The Convention on Certain Common Institutions .................................................................................. 37 6. Following the signing of the Treaties of Rome: the Treaties in the words of the President of the Common Assembly ...................................................................................................................................... 38 CONCLUSIONS - THE ROLE OF THE COMMON ASSEMBLY IN PREPARING THE TREATIES OF ROME ...................................................................................................................................41 COMMON ASSEMBLY MEMBERS MENTIONED ..............................................................................43 LIST OF DOCUMENTS MENTIONED ...................................................................................................53 A. List of attached documents .......................................................................................................................... 55 B. List of reports of the Common Assembly mentioned ............................................................................. 56 C. List of reports of meetings of the Working Party mentioned ................................................................. 57 D. List of other documents mentioned ........................................................................................................... 58 3 TOWARDS A SINGLE PARLIAMENT PART TWO DOCUMENTS(list A) FRENCH ORIGINALS A1 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – Résolution adoptée le 2 décembre 1954 et relative aux Pouvoirs de l’Assemblée Commune et à leur exercice ......................................................................................................... 63 A2 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – Proposition de résolution à l’adresse des Gouvernements des états membres de la CECA ....................................................................................................................................... 67 A3 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – Groupe de Travail – Compte rendu de la réunion du samedi 8 décembre 1956 ............................................................................................................................................... 73 A4 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – Groupe de Travail – Sous-Commission des questions institutionnelles Notes sur l’élaboration des clauses institutionelles des traités de l’Euratom et du Marché ........................................................................................................................................................... 103 A5 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – Groupe de Travail – Lettre de M. Motz à Spaak du 10.12.1956 .............. 109 A6 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – Groupe de Travail – Memorandum sur la Relance européenne ........... 113 A7 ASSEMBLEE COMMUNE – BUREAU – Procès-Verbal de la réunion du samedi 2 février 1957 ........... 121 A8 Procès-verbal de la réunion commune des Bureaux de l’Assemblée commune CECA, de l’Assemblée consultative du Conseil de l’Europe et de l’Assemblée de l’Union de l’Europe Occidente du 2 février 1957 ................................................................................................................................................. 131 A9 Procès-verbal de l’audience accordée à la délégation des Bureaux des trois Assemblées européennes par le six Ministres réunis en Conférence le 4 février 1957 au Val Duchesse à Bruxelles ............................ 141 A10 Procès-verbal de la réunion de la Délégation des Bureaux des trois Assemblées européenes (Bruxelles, le 4 février 1957) ............................................................................................................................................ 151 DOCUMENTS(list A) UNOFFICIAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH ORIGINALS A 1 COMMON ASSEMBLY – Resolution adopted on 2 December 1954 concerning the – Powers of scrutiny of the Common Assembly and their use ......................................................................................... 161 A 2 COMMON ASSEMBLY – Motion for a resolution addressed to the Governments of the Member States of the ECSC ......................................................................................................................................... 165 A 3 COMMON ASSEMBLY - Working Party – Minutes of the meeting of Saturday, 8 December 1956(extract: Exchange of views on the current progress of the proceedings of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom) ....................................................................................... 169 A 4 JOINT ASSEMBLY - Working Party – Sub-Committee on institutional questions – Notes on the drafting of the institutional clauses of the Euratom and Common Market reatiesT .................................... 187 A 5 COMMON ASSEMBLY – Working Party – Letter by Mr Motz to Mr Spaak of 10 December 1956 ...... 191 A 6 COMMON ASSEMBLY – Working Party – Memorandum on the European Relaunch ...................... 195 A 7 COMMON ASSEMBLY – BUREAU – Minutes of the meeting of Saturday, 2 February 1957 ............... 201 A 8 Minutes of the joint meeting of the Bureaux of the ECSC Common Assembly, the Council of Europe Consultative Assembly and the Western European Union Assembly of 2 February 1957........................... 209 A 9 Minutes of the hearing accorded to the delegation from the Bureaux of the three European Assemblies by the six Ministers meeting in Conference at Val Duchesse on 4 February 1957 ....................................... 217 A 10 Minutes of the meeting of the Delegation from the Bureaux of