In July 1985, Mauro Ferri, Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 and representative of Bettino Craxi, Italian Prime Minister, on the Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs, comments on the various meetings of this Committee (known as the ‘Dooge Committee’) which were held between 28 September 1984 and 15 March 1985. In its final report, the Committee proposes that an Intergovernmental Conference be convened in order to negotiate a draft Treaty on European Union.