On 2 July 1957, the Council of Western European Union (WEU) meets to reply to the questions put by the Assembly Committee on Defence Questions. French Ambassador Jean Chauvel notes that, unless there is a change in the allocation of responsibilities, the Council is not in a position to reply to questions on overall strategy because, since 1950, WEU has no longer been responsible for planning defence policy and organising common defence, these tasks having been transferred to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The best approach is to address the various questions in the most appropriate framework. The Chairman of the Council, Louis Goffin, adds that this means that the Council no longer receives information about the implementation of defence obligations for each Member State and is therefore unable to give information to the Assembly; he also points out that NATO is not subject to parliamentary control. The other questions focus on the reorganisation of the Member States’ land forces for security in Western Europe and the ‘British strategic outlook’.