On 1 June 1950, the National Federation of Agricultural Workers' Trade Unions (FNSEA) asks Georges Bidault, President of the French Council, to extend the European coal and steel project to include agriculture.

On 6 June 1950, less than a month after the Schuman Declaration, the French Agriculture Minister, Gabriel Valay, inspired by the pooling of coal and steel resources, submits to Robert Schuman a proposal relating to a common agricultural market in Europe.

In his Memoirs, Pierre Pflimlin, former French Agriculture Minister, recalls the objectives which led him to propose to the National Assembly, on 12 June 1950, the Europe-wide organisation of the agricultural market. This plan was later to become known as the ‘green pool’.

On 15 June 1950, Pierre Pflimlin, French Minister of Agriculture, calls on the French Government as a body to take the initiative to propose to its Western European partners that the major agricultural markets be organised on a Europe-wide basis.

On 11 August 1950, Pierre Pflimlin, French Minister of Agriculture, informs Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board, that he wishes to inform his colleagues in the Council of Ministers on 22 August about his plan to establish a European agricultural market.

On 19 August 1950, Jean Monnet sends a telegram to Pierre Pflimlin, Agriculture Minister in the Pleven Government, warning him of the dangers of an ill-prepared initiative with regard to the plan to create a common market for agricultural markets in Europe.

In January 1951, in the journal Notre Europe, Pierre de Félice, Senator for the Loiret region and French delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, calls for the establishment of a European agricultural pool.

In this Note sent to Pierre Pflimlin, French Agriculture Minister, on 12 February 1951, Jean Monnet describes the supranational character that he would like to see applied to the plan for a ‘green pool’.

On 28 May 1951, Jos Olinger, Agricultural Attaché to the Luxembourg Embassy in Brussels, provides the Grand Duchy’s Foreign Ministry with an account of the ideas put forward by Belgian experts during a joint working conference on the French plan for a ‘green pool’.

On 5 September 1950, Pierre Pflimlin, French Agriculture Minister, suggests to his government colleagues that a common agricultural market be established. They subsequently carry out studies on the pooling of the production of wheat, sugar, butter and wine in Europe.