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European Coal and Steel Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Common Assembly

The second ordinary session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) opened in Strasbourg on May II, 1954; Mr. de Gasperi (Italy) was unanimously elected president. Mr. Monnet, President of the ECSC High Authority, reported that the “first steps in the creation of Europe” had obtained for the member countries a renewal of credit, more favorable financial conditions, and a more productive use of their resources than they could have achieved separately. Before concluding the session on May 21, the Common Assembly adopted a resolution which dealt with the report of the High Authority, the report on administrative expenses of the Community for 1952–1953, and the provisional budget for 1954–1955. The resolution 1) approved the expressed intention of the High Authority to limit administrative expenses and its decision to draft a statute for officials of the Community; 2) stressed the open character of ECSC, expressed gratification at the development of its relations with the Council of Europe, called for speedy conclusion of the negotiations with the United Kingdom, and expressed a desire for relations with other European countries, especially Austria; 3) urged that greater attention be given to the question of cartels and maximum prices, which in some cases needed to be lowered; 4) invited the High Authority to pursue, in cooperation with governments, efforts to introduce standard international freight through-rates, and to harmonize conditions of transport; 5) congratulated the High Authority on its work to free the movement of manpower, and hoped for the development of comparable conditions of remuneration and of social security norms throughout the Community; 6) approved the allocation of a large part of the first investments financed by the Community to new construction of workers' housing; and 7) requested the High Authority to seek, through the Council of Ministers, adoption of a coordinated policy of economic expansion and development of outlets, with the objective of a reduction in the cost price of coal and steel.

Type
International Organizations: Summary of Activities: IV. Other Functional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 1955 , pp. 310 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1955

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References

1 New York Times, May 12, 1954; The Times (London), 05 13, 1954Google Scholar.

2 For information on these negotiations, see below, p. 314.

3 Council of Europe News, June 1954, p. 6; for further information on the United States loan, see below, p. 313.

4 Bulletin from the European Community for coal steel, January 1955, p. 8; Council of Europe News, December 1954, p. 3. For a fuller account of the report of the High Authority to the Common Assembly, see European Coal and Steel Community, High Authority, Report on the Situation of the Community laid before the Extraordinary Session of the Common Assemtly (November 1954), Luxembourg, 11 1954Google Scholar.

5 For information on the resignation of Mr. Monnet, see below, p. 314.

6 Council of Europe News, January 1955, p. 20.

7 For information on the first joint meeting, see International Organization, VII, p. 607.

8 Second Joint Meeting of the Members of The Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe and of the Members of The Common Assembly of the European Community of Coal and Steel. (20th May, 1954). Official Report of the Debate. Strasbourg, n.d.

9 Communauté Européenne du Charbon et de l'Acier. Assemblée Commune. Rapport ⋯ I'Assemblée Consultative du Conseil de I'Europe sur I'activité de I'Assemblée Commune du 10 septembre 1952 du 30 juin 1954, par M. Alain Pober. (Document DI (55) 1). p. 4.

10 Council of Europe News, April 1954, p. 2.

11 Ibid., May 1954, p. 2.

12 For information on this resolution, see International Organization, VII, p. 603–604.

13 Council of Europe News, June 1954, p. 5–6.

14 For more information on the negotiations, see below, p. 314.

15 Council of Europe News, July 1954, p. 1.

16 Ibid, August 1954, p. 2.

17 Ibid, November 1954, p. 3.

18 Ibid, December 1954, p. 2.

19 For further information on the negotiations with the United Kingdom and the terms of the agreement concluded, see below, p. 314.

20 Council of Europe News, January 1955, p. 20–21. For information on the GATT-ECSC Agreement of November 1952, concerning waiver of the most-favorednations clause as between ECSC members, see International Organization, VII, p. 274–275.

21 Council of Europe News, February 1955, p. 6; Bulletin from the European Community for coal and steel, February-March 1955, p. 1–4; New York Times, January 24, 1955.

22 Council of Europe News, April 1954, p. 2.

23 Ibid, May 1954, p. 2; Chronology of International Events and Documents, X, p. 298–299; New York Times, March 3, 1954.

24 For further information on ECSC investment policy, see International Organization, VIII, p. 287–288.

25 Council of Europe News, January 1955, p. 22; International Financial News Survey, VII, p. 213; Bulletin from the European Community for coal and steel, November 1954, p. 2; Ibid, January 1955, p. 3–4.

26 Bulletin from the European Community for coal and steel, November 1954, p. 2; The times (London), 05 27, 1954Google Scholar; for action on this question by the Council of Ministers, see above, p. 312–313.

27 New York Times, June 19, 1954.

28 Council of Europe News, December 1954, p. 2.

29 Ibid, February 1955, p. I.

30 Bulletin from the European Community for coal and steel, February-March 1955, p. 15.

31 For more information on the ECSC-United Kingdom agreement, see below.

32 Bulletin from the European Community for coal and steel, February-March 1955, p. 15.

33 The Times (London), 05 4, 1954Google Scholar.

34 Ibid., November 22, 1954.

35 New York Times, December 22, 1954; Council of Europe News, January 1955, p. 21.

36 New York Times,February 22, 1955; Council of Europe News, March 1955, p. 6. For discussion in the Council of Ministers, see above, p. 312.

37 Council of Europe News, November 1954, p. 3; Bulletin from the European Community for coal and steel, December 1954, p. 1–2. For the text of the High Authority's decisions, see Journal Officiel de la Communauté Européenne du Charbon et de I'Acier, 1953, p. 109–112; Ibid, 1954, p. 217–224.

38 Council of Europe News, January 1955, p. 21. For a summary of the Court's decision on the French appeal, see Journal Officiel de la Communauté Européenne du Charbon et de I'Acier, 1955, p. 547–559.

39 Council of Europe News, March 1955, p. 6.

40 Ibid, February 1954, p. 2.

41 Ibid, April 1954, p. 2; for relevant action by the ECSC Council of Ministers, see above, p. 312.

42 Council of Europe News, May 1954, p. 2. For further information on the common market in special steels, see above, p. 312.