In his memoirs, Count Jean-Charles Snoy et d’Oppuers, former President of the Belgian Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference established by the Messina Conference and to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, and former Chairman of the Interim Committee on the Common Market and Euratom, looks back on the revival of European integration and its highlights.
On 26 June 1956, in Brussels, Maurice Faure, Junior Minister in the Foreign Ministry and Head of the French Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, discusses with Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Intergovernmental Conference, the implications of the revival of European integration and the forthcoming diplomatic negotiations.
In its resolution of 3 February 2000, the European Parliament delivers a favourable opinion on the opening of the work of the Intergovernmental Conference.
Report drafted by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs on 9 July 2007 regarding the convening of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC). This report confirms the favourable opinion of the European Parliament on the convening of the IGC but expresses regrets at the implications of the IGC’s mandate.
In its resolution of 13 April 2000, the European Parliament presents its proposals concerning the reform of the treaties for discussion at the Intergovernmental Conference.
On 18 October 1956, in connection with the Intergovernmental Conference at the Château de Val Duchesse, Christian Calmes, Secretary-General of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, drafts a memorandum in which he defines the implications of and the difficulties inherent in the supply of fissile material in the future European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).
On 2 and 3 December 1985, the European Council, held under the Luxembourgish presidency, adopts a series of texts which, combined in a ‘Single European Act’, are to be completed at the Luxembourg Intergovernmental Conference on 16 and 17 December 1985 and approved on 17 February 1986.
On 19 June 1997, the delegations of the Member States at the Intergovernmental Conference receive a provisional version of the draft Treaty of Amsterdam as mentioned on page 3 of the conclusions of the Amsterdam European Council drawn up by the Presidency.