On 13 March 1956, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, makes a statement to the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in which, emphasising the importance of a Common Market based on a customs union between the Six, he gives a progress report on the work of the Intergovernmental Committee, which he chairs, set up in connection with the revival of European integration.

Am 26. September 1956 legt die niederländische Delegation bei der Regierungskonferenz für den Gemeinsamen Markt und Euratom einen Vermerk zur Umsetzung einer gemeinsamen Handelspolitik gegenüber Drittländern und zu den Aufgaben der künftigen Europäischen Kommission vor.

On 26 September 1956, during the proceedings of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, the Italian Delegation forwards to the Committee of the Heads of Delegation a note in which it reaffirms the principles which are essential for the fair operation of the Common Market.

Am 26. November 1956 stellt die deutsche Delegation bei der Regierungskonferenz für den Gemeinsamen Markt und Euratom ein Memorandum über das Verfahren zur Festlegung der Höhe des Gemeinsamen Außenzolltarifs der künftigen Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) vor.

On 5 December 1956, the French Foreign Ministry summarises the progress of the Val Duchesse negotiations on the Common Market and outlines the possible difficulties arising from the implementation of the future Treaty establishing a European Economic Community (EEC).

On 17 December 1956, the experts attending the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom analyse the appropriateness of including in the future Treaty the principles of or, at the very least, the guidelines for the common trade and tariff policy of the Member States of the future Common Market vis-à-vis third countries.

On 1 January 1957, the Italian daily newspaper Il nuovo Corriere della Sera describes the efforts of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) to establish a Common Market and a European customs union.

Das Aktionskomitee der Europäischen Bewegung veröffentlicht 1957 eine Broschüre, in der es die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen der Einrichtung eines gemeinsamen Marktes in Europa analysiert.

Am 13. Oktober 1956 wird in dem Entwurf eines Protokolls der Sitzungen der Gruppe für den Gemeinsamen Markt am 2., 3. und 9. Oktober 1956 in Brüssel der Stand der Arbeiten der Delegationen der sechs Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) zur Stellung der Landwirtschaft in der zukünftigen Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) erörtert.

On 11 December 1956, the Luxembourg Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom draws up a note on the application of a safeguard clause for Luxembourg agriculture in the future Common Market.

On 28 December 1956, an internal note from the Luxembourg Ministry of Agriculture emphasises the special situation of Luxembourg agriculture in the light of the economic implications of the Common Market.

On 16 January 1957, the French daily newspaper Combat outlines the difficulties involved in the establishment of a European common agricultural market.

On 28 January 1957, at the Val Duchesse Conference attended by the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the daily newspaper La Libre Belgique gives an account of the difficult negotiations on agriculture and, in particular, provides a summary of statements made to the press by Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom.

On 28 January 1957, the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir reports on the difficult negotiations on agriculture conducted between the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Val Duchesse and outlines the main thrust of a possible compromise.

On 24 January 1957, the Heads of Delegation of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) taking part in Brussels in the work of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom discuss a number of issues that have not yet been resolved with regard to the agricultural situation in the future European Economic Community (EEC).

In March 1957, in an article published in the mouthpiece of the Belgian Christian Social Party (PSC), La Revue politique, MP Maurice Van Hemelrijck describes the principles and arrangements governing the future common agricultural policy (CAP) as laid down in the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC).

Am 22. Dezember 1956 untersucht die Deutsche Bauern-Korrespondenz, die Monatszeitschrift des Deutschen Bauernverbandes, die Folgen des Gemeinsamen Marktes und der Zollunion für die Landwirtschaft.

On 15 January 1957, in Paris, Ernest Lemaire-Audoire, President of the Union of Meat Wholesale Trade Representatives and President of the National Council of French Employers’ (CNPF) Study Committee on Agricultural Issues, presents a report in which he emphasises the need to include, subject to certain conditions, agricultural products in the future European Economic Community (EEC).

Am 18. Januar 1957 verabschieden die Fachleute der landwirtschaftlichen Berufsverbände der sechs Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) eine Entschließung zur Ausarbeitung einer gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) im Rahmen der zukünftigen Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG).

On 15 January 1957, as debates on Europe are held in the French National Assembly, Henri Dorgères d’Halluin, MP for the Ille-et-Vilaine département allied to the Paysan (Countryside) political group, expresses his concerns at the place that French agriculture will occupy in the future Common Market.

On 25 January 1957, in connection with the drawing up of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and Euratom in Val Duchesse, the Italian daily newspaper Il nuovo Corriere della Sera considers the future of agriculture in the Common Market.

Nach der Unterzeichnung der Verträge zur Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft (EAG oder Euratom) einen Tag zuvor veröffentlicht die Tageszeitung Luxemburger Wort am 26. März 1957 einen Artikel des luxemburgischen Landwirtschaftsministers Émile Colling, in dem dieser die Herausforderungen eines zukünftigen gemeinsamen Agrarmarktes beschreibt.

Am 12. April 1957 nimmt der Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Landwirtschaft Stellung zur Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) und äußert seine Sorge hinsichtlich möglicher Auswirkungen des Gemeinsamen Marktes auf die deutsche Landwirtschaft.