Table illustrating the economic weight of the future European Common Market in relation to the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union.

As shown in this animated film of the time, the final intra-Community customs duties on industrial and some agricultural products were abolished on 1 July 1968, at the end of the transitional period.

On 25 March 2007, to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Luxembourg television broadcasts this documentary in which Pierre Pescatore, former Legal Adviser at the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry and member of the Drafting Group at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, gives his assessment of the European integration process and identifies future prospects.