The preface to the 2001–2002 ECSC Consultative Committee yearbook summarises the latest achievements of the Committee under the Presidency of Enrico Gibellieri, whose mandate ends on 23 July 2002 with the expiry of the ECSC Treaty.
Rules of Procedure of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, adopted by the Advisory Committee on 29 October 1998.
On 6 March 2002, in view of the crisis affecting the American steel industry and President George Bush’s decision to cut steel imports into the USA, Enrico Gibellieri, President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, maintains that the instruments of the ECSC Treaty (a few months prior to its expiry) stand as a model for crisis-management in the large industrial sectors in any part of the world.
General view of the first session of the Consultative Committee attached to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), held in Luxembourg on 26 January 1953.
Speech by Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority from 1952 to 1955, delivered at the first meeting of the ECSC Consultative Committee, held on 26 January 1953 in the Hôtel de Ville, Luxembourg. In the weeks preceding the establishment of the common market in coal and steel, Jean Monnet asks, on behalf of the High Authority, for the opinion of the Consultative Committee regarding the new price systems to be introduced in the Community. The High Authority would then take decisions with a view to abolishing discrimination and protection arrangements in the six founding countries, which constitute a barrier to the movement of products.