Protocol on the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community by the Treaty on European Union of 7 February 1992. This Protocol was repealed by the Treaty of Amsterdam of 2 October 1997.

By this Decision of 18 October 1996, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions adopt, by joint agreement, rules for the exercise, within the common organisational structure (COS), of the powers conferred on the appointing authority by the Regulations applicable to officials and other servants of the European Communities.

Cooperation agreement between the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) and the Committee of the Regions (COR), approved by the ESC Bureau on 27 April 1999 and by the COR Bureau on 6 May 1999. The agreement is applicable from the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty and replaces the Protocol on the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, repealed by the said treaty.

List of presidents and vice-presidents of the Economic and Social Committee, from 1958 to the present day.

Table showing the Bureau Members of the Economic and Social Committee for the period 2006 to 2008.

Table showing the Bureau Members of the Economic and Social Committee for the period 2008 to 2010.

Table showing the six Sections of the Economic and Social Committee and listing their responsibilities.

On 14 October 1959, the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities elects its first President, the Belgian Roger De Staercke, along with all the members of its Bureau. In the days which follow, the Bureau gets ready to enter into negotiations with the Council regarding the provisions of the Committee’s Rules of Procedure.

Roger de Staercke, Managing Director of the Federation of Belgian Industries (FIB) and first President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1958 to 1960.

Ludwig Rosenberg, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1960 to 1962.

Émile Roche, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1962 to 1964.

Piero Giustiniani, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1964 to 1966.

Louis Major, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1966 to 1968.

Mathias Berns, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1968 to 1970.

J. D. Kuipers, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1970 to 1972.

Alfons Lappas, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1972 to 1974.

Henri Canonge, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1974 to 1976.

Basil de Ferranti, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1976 to 1978.

Fabrizia Baduel Glorioso, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1978 to 1980.

Raffaele Vanni, former Secretary-General of the Union of Italian Workers (UIL), was President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) in Brussels from 1978 to 1980, having succeeded Fabrizia Baduel Glorioso who was elected to the European Parliament in June 1979.

Tomas Roseingrave, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1980 to 1982.

François Ceyrac, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1982 to 1984.

Gerd Muhr, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1984 to 1986.

Alfons Margot, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1986 to 1988.

Alberto Masprone, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1988 to 1990.

François Staedelin, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1990 to 1991.

Michael Geuenich, President of the Economic and Social Committee from January to October 1992.

Susanne Tiemann, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1992 to 1994.

Carlos Ferrer, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1994 to 1996.

Carlos Ferrer, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1994 to 1996, talks to Jacques Delors, then President of the European Commission.

Tom Jenkins, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1996 to 1998.

Beatrice Rangoni-Machiavelli, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 1998 to 2000.

Göke Daniel Frerichs, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 2000 to 2002.

Roger Briesch, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 2002 to 2004.

Anne-Marie Sigmund, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 2004 to 2006.

Dimitris Dimitriadis, President of the Economic and Social Committee from 2006 to 2008.

Mario Sepi, président du Comité économique et social depuis octobre 2008.

In preparation for the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) on 23 July 2002, a ‘Consultative Subcommittee for Coal, Steel and Industrial Conversion’ (CSCSIC) is established within the Economic and Social Committee in order to continue the activities of the ECSC Consultative Committee.

List of the Presidents of the ECSC Consultative Committee from 1953 to 2002.

Helmuth Burckhardt, the first President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, from 1953 to 1954.

Enrico Gibellieri, President of the ECSC Consultative Committee from 10 October 2001 to 23 July 2002. Mr Gibellieri was the 44th and last President of the Consultative Committee.

Members of the Bureau of the ECSC Consultative Committee for the period from 2001 to 2002.

Members of the four Subcommittees of the ECSC Consultative Committee for the period from 2001 to 2002.