Treaty of Rome
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| Treaty of Rome | |
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| Treaty establishing the European Community | |
 The original 1957 signatures
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| Signed - location |
March 25, 1957 Rome, Italy |
| Effective | 1 January 1958 |
| Signatories | France West Germany Italy Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg |
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Wikisource original text: The Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) |
The Treaty of Rome, signed by France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) on March 25, 1957, established the European Economic Community (EEC), an independent supranational economic organization, and came into force on 1 January 1958.
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[edit] Renamings
The treaty's original full name was the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, later renamed by the Treaty of Maastricht to Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC). On the European summit of June 22 and 23, 2007, it was agreed that both the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community will be amended by a new Treaty of Lisbon to have most provisions of the European Constitution included. The Treaty establishing the European Community will be renamed once again in this process, this time to Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).[1]
[edit] The treaties of Rome
Another treaty was signed the same day establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which came into effect on the same day as the Treaty of Rome, 1 January 1958.
Both treaties, in conjunction with the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (the Treaty of Paris, which expired in 2001-2002), have become known as the Treaties of Rome.
To date, the original Treaty of Rome has been amended by all subsequent treaties of the European Union. The Treaty of Nice consolidated all treaties into one document, but within this the EC Treaty (the amended form of the Treaty of Rome) remains a single section with its own article numbering.
Despite subsequent treaties, especially the Treaty of Maastricht, the EC Treaty is still the legal basis for most decisions taken by the institutions of the European Union and it remains the main source of communitary legislation.
[edit] Signatories
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In March 2007, the BBC's Today radio programme reported that delays in printing the treaty meant that the document signed by the European leaders as the Treaty of Rome consisted of blank pages between its frontispiece and page for the signatures.[2][3][4]
[edit] The 50th Anniversary
All members of the union in 2007 celebrated the 50th anniversary of this important event by issuing commemorative coins, in euros for the members of the Eurozone and in their local currencies for those that have not adopted the euro yet. For the first time, the 13 active members of the Eurozone minted a common issue of a 2 euro commemorative coin, on top of the yearly production that some countries did that year. Some other countries minted high value euro commemorative coins, not designated for circulation, like the Belgian 10 euro 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome commemorative coin.
[edit] See also
- Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom
- Spaak Report
- Ohlin Report
- Berlin Declaration (2007)
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Four Freedoms (European Union)
- History of the European Union
- Article 81
- Article 82
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1952 Paris |
1958 Rome |
1967 Brussels |
1987 SEA |
1993 Maastricht |
1999 Amsterdam |
2003 Nice |
2009? Lisbon |
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| 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
- Consolidated version of the Treaty (Official Journal C 321E of 29 December 2006)
- EEC Treaty (Treaty of Rome) in Wikisource
- History of the Rome Treaties European NAvigator
- Treaty establishing the European Economic Community European NAvigator
- Happy Birthday EU - Union wide design competition to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty
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