Convention on certain institutions common to the European Communities annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community. Revised version.

Excerpts from the statement made by Walter Hallstein, President of the Commission of the European Economic Community at the inaugural meeting of the Economic and Social Committee held on 19 May 1958.

On 19 May 1958, the inaugural session of the Economic and Social Committee is held in Brussels. The Europe Daily Bulletin reports on the event.

Erklärung von Louis Major, Präsident des Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses von 1966 bis 1968, anlässlich seiner ersten Besprechung bei der Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften nach dem Inkrafttreten des „Fusionsvertrags zur Einsetzung gemeinsamer Exekutivorgane" am 1. Juli 1967.

A historical report on the creation of the Economic and Social Committee, this article, from 1974, presents its role, its operation and its responsibilities.

In view of the imminent expiry of the ECSC Treaty in July 2002, the Economic and Social Committee delivers, for the first time, an opinion traditionally falling within the competence of the ECSC Consultative Committee.

On 28 May 2008, the European Economic and Social Committee celebrates its 50th anniversary during a commemorative plenary session. On this occasion, the Committee’s President, Dimitris Dimitriadis, refers to the importance of consultation in the European Union’s legislative process.

Speech by Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority from 1952 to 1955, delivered at the first meeting of the ECSC Consultative Committee, held on 26 January 1953 in the Hôtel de Ville, Luxembourg. In the weeks preceding the establishment of the common market in coal and steel, Jean Monnet asks, on behalf of the High Authority, for the opinion of the Consultative Committee regarding the new price systems to be introduced in the Community. The High Authority would then take decisions with a view to abolishing discrimination and protection arrangements in the six founding countries, which constitute a barrier to the movement of products.

General view of the first session of the Consultative Committee attached to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), held in Luxembourg on 26 January 1953.

On 26 January 1973, in the Hôtel de ville, Luxembourg, the ECSC Consultative Committee commemorates the 20th anniversary of its first session. On this occasion, Karl Heinz Hawner, President of the Consultative Committee from 1972 to 1973, gives an account of the work already completed by the Committee and outlines the work still to be carried out.

At the ceremony held in Luxembourg on 26 January 1973 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first session of the ECSC Consultative Committee, the Committee’s first President, Helmuth Burckhardt, recalls the first years of the Committee.

On 1 April 1993, at the Cercle municipal in Luxembourg, the ECSC Consultative Committee commemorates the 40th anniversary of its first session, held on 26 January 1953 at Luxembourg town hall. Jacques Santer, Luxembourg Prime Minister from 1984 to 1995, delivers a speech during the ceremony.

Proposal by Enrico Gibellieri, President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, that the Consultative Committee, as the Paris Treaty expires in July 2002, be incorporated into the European Economic and Social Committee through the creation of a ‘Steel and Coal Consultative Committee’.

Mit dem Auslaufen des Vertrags zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl am 23. Juli 2002 wird auch der Beratende Ausschuss der EGKS aufgelöst. Der Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (WSA) als „natürlicher Erbe“ des Beratenden Ausschusses übernimmt dessen Befugnisse, was den strukturierten Dialog im Kohle- und Stahlbereich angeht. Eine neue „beratende Kommission“ wird im WSA eingerichtet, die sich mit industriepolitischen Fragen in den ehemaligen EGKS-Bereichen beschäftigen soll, sowie mit dem industriellen Wandel in allen anderen Wirtschaftsbereichen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Erweiterung.

Am 26. Juni 2002 findet die letzte ordentliche Sitzung des Beratendes Ausschusses der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) in Luxemburg statt. Seine Aufgaben werden von einem Komitee des Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (WSA) aufgenommen. Beim Auslaufen des EGKS-Vertrags am 23. Juli 2002, geht das Vermögen der ersten europäischen Gemeinschaft in die Stahl- und Kohleforschung.

Ansprache von Dr. Göke Frerichs, Präsident des Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses (EWSA), anlässlich der feierlichen Sitzung des Beratenden Ausschusses der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) vom 27. Juni 2002. Die Arbeit des Beratenden Ausschusses soll nach Auslaufen des EGKS-Vertrags im Rahmen des EWSA fortgesetzt werden.

On 27 June 2002, Enrico Gibellieri, the last President of the Conultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), delivers an address on the occasion of the formal session to bring the Committee’s work to a close and to mark the expiry of the ECSC Treaty 50 years after it came into force.

Photo taken during the formal session to bring the ECSC Consultative Committee's work to a close and to mark the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community 50 years after it came into force.