On 10 July 1957, the French National Assembly adopts by 342 votes to 239 the draft law which authorises René Coty, President of the French Republic, to ratify the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (ECC) and the European Atomy Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), signed on 25 March 1957 in Rome by the representatives of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).