Protocol (No 34) on the financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and on the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community by the Treaty of Nice of 26 February 2001.

The Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) expires on 23 July 2002. By Decision of 27 February 2002, the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, provide for temporary management of the ECSC funds by the European Commission in the context of their transfer to the European Community (EC).

At its final session held on 26 June 2002, the Consultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) adopts a Resolution by which it expresses both its satisfaction at the efforts made to preserve the achievements of the ECSC after the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and also its concern about the means used to secure the benefit of the ECSC legacy, particularly with regard to welfare and employment.

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.

On 27 June 2002, Jacques F. Poos, Member of the European Parliament, gives a speech during the formal session of the ECSC Consultative Committee held in the European Centre Hemicycle on the Kirchberg Plateau, Luxembourg, to mark the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

On 27 June 2002, Enrico Gibellieri, final President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, gives the closing address at the formal session of the Consultative Committee of the ECSC in the Chamber of the European Centre in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, on the occasion of the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

Feierliches Einholen der EGKS-Flagge am 23. Juli 2002 in Brüssel anlässlich des Außerkrafttretens des Vertrags über die Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl 50 Jahre nach dessen Inkrafttreten.

Am 23. Juli 2002 findet in Brüssel eine Zeremonie in Anwesenheit des Präsidenten der Europäischen Kommission Romano Prodi und des letzten Präsidenten des Beratenden Ausschusses der EGKS Enrico Gibellieri statt, auf der anlässlich des Auslaufens des Vertrags von Paris zur Gründung der EGKS nach fünfzig Jahren die Fahne der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) eingeholt wird. Auf einem Empfang im Palais d’Egmont würdigt Romano Prodi später die Arbeit der ersten Europäischen Gemeinschaft und die einiger Beamter der Hohen Behörde.

In February 2003, the site of the former Bois du Cazier colliery in Marcinelle, Belgium, closed since 1967, is reopened following its conversion into the Museum of Industry. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, attends the preview of the exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the ECSC.

Contribution by Pierre Pescatore, former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, to a joint publication produced by the European Commission in 2002 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). In his text, Mr Pescatore explains, by means of a historical review of the founding Treaties, the principles and concepts which determined the structure of the ECSC and which subsequently provided the foundations of that of the European Economic Community (EEC).

The preface to the 2001–2002 ECSC Consultative Committee yearbook summarises the latest achievements of the Committee under the Presidency of Enrico Gibellieri, whose mandate ends on 23 July 2002 with the expiry of the ECSC Treaty.

On 10 October 2001, on the occasion of his election as the final President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, Enrico Gibellieri summarises the activities of the Committee over the past 50 years and announces that it will be his task to ensure that they can continue with other instruments in a new context, after the expiry of the ECSC Treaty in July 2002.

On 6 March 2002, in view of the crisis affecting the American steel industry and President George Bush’s decision to cut steel imports into the USA, Enrico Gibellieri, President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, maintains that the instruments of the ECSC Treaty (a few months prior to its expiry) stand as a model for crisis-management in the large industrial sectors in any part of the world.

Briefing note for the press conference given by Enrico Gibellieri, President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, on 24 June 2002, reviewing 50 years of the ECSC Treaty and the importance of the ECSC’s achievements for the future of the European Union.

In a welcoming address to Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic, given in Rome on 16 July 2002, a few days before the expiry of the ECSC Treaty, Enrico Gibellieri, President of the Consultative Committee, refers to the heritage left by the 50 years of the ECSC Treaty, with particular regard to the development of European industry, the management of social crises and research and innovation.

In this note, Enrico Gibellieri, who served as the last President of the Consultative Committee of the ECSC from 10 October 2001 to 23 July 2002, reviews the advances made in the fields of social policy over 50 years in Europe as a result of the instruments provided by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), particularly the instruments for sectoral dialogue and those for the improvement of living and working conditions.