Merger Treaty
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| Merger Treaty | |
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| Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities | |
| Type of treaty | Merging the judicial, legislative and administrative bodies of the three European communities |
| Signed - location |
8 April 1965 Brussels, Belgium |
| Effective | 1 July 1967 |
| Signatories | 1965 EC members |
The Merger Treaty or Brussels Treaty,[1] signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965 and in force since 1 July 1967, first gathered together the organizational structures of the then three European Communities (European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community and Euratom).
It created the European Commission and the Council of the European Communities to be the governing bodies for all three institutions, and it also had them share a single budget. This treaty is regarded by some as the real beginning of the modern European Union. The term 'European Communities' (EC) also came into use from this time onward.
It was abrogated by the Amsterdam Treaty signed in 1997 which replaced it.
| 1948 Brussels |
1952 Paris |
1958 Rome |
1967 Brussels |
1987 SEA |
1993 Maastricht |
1999 Amsterdam |
2003 Nice |
2009? Lisbon |
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| European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) | |||||||||
| European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) | European Union (EU) | ||||||||
| European Economic Community (EEC) | → P I L L A R S → |
European Community (EC) | |||||||
| ↑European Communities↑ | Justice & Home Affairs (JHA) | ||||||||
| Police & Judicial co-operation in Criminal Matters (PJCC) | |||||||||
| European Political Cooperation (EPC) | Common Foreign & Security Policy (CFSP) | ||||||||
| Western European Union (WEU) | |||||||||
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Merger Treaty European NAvigator
Timeline of the Treaties and EU Constitution
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