Rules adopted on 17 September 1997 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe relating to the monitoring arrangements laid down in Articles 24 to 26 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. These rules establish the procedure for election and appointment of the members of the Advisory Committee as well as the procedure to be followed in the exercise of supervisory duties.
In a note dated 1 November 1948, the Secretary-General of the Brussels Treaty Organisation (Western Union) notifies of the decision taken by the Consultative Council to set up a Committee on Economic and Financial Matters. As a result, each Member State of Western Union is asked to appoint experts in this area.
In its Resolution of 22 November 1990 on the Intergovernmental Conferences in the context of the European Parliament’s strategy for European Union, Parliament recommends the creation of a Committee of the Regions and Local Authorities with consultative status.
Article from the daily newspaper Le Monde published after the signing of the Treaty on European Union in Maastricht on 7 February 1992 and before its entry into force on 1 November 1993. Following the Maastricht amendments, the Treaty establishing the European Community gives rise to a new Community body with advisory status, consisting of representatives of regional and local bodies (previously Article 198a, now Article 263 following the Amsterdam amendment). On this occasion, the author of the article considers the future of a body for which responsibilities will vary considerably according to its composition.
The final working session of the Consultative Committe of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) is held on 26 June 2002 in Luxembourg. Its responsibilities are transferred to the Economic and Social Committee (ESC). When the ECSC Treaty expires on 23 July 2002, the financial reserves of the first European Community are to be used for research in the coal and steel industries.
Par lettre adressée au Président du Comité consultatif de la CECA, Jean Monnet, Président de la Haute Autorité, sollicite le 25 janvier 1953, au nom de l'institution qu'il préside, l'avis du Comité consultatif sur certaines questions concernant l'établissement du Marché commun du charbon et de l'acier.
On 27 June 2002, Jacques F. Poos, Member of the European Parliament, gives a speech during the formal session of the ECSC Consultative Committee held in the European Centre Hemicycle on the Kirchberg Plateau, Luxembourg, to mark the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
On 27 June 2002, Enrico Gibellieri, final President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, gives the closing address at the formal session of the Consultative Committee of the ECSC in the Chamber of the European Centre in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, on the occasion of the expiry of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
The flag of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1986 to 2002. From 1958, the date of the adoption of the first ECSC flag, the number of stars represented the number of Member States and was increased in line with the successive enlargements of the ECSC before being fixed at 12 after the enlargement of 1986.
Designed by the architect Pierre Bohler, the Debating Chamber of the European Parliament, situated on the rue du Fort Thüngen in Luxembourg, was formally opened in 1979 as a venue for the holding of plenary sittings until 1981. Since 1981, the Chamber has been an integral part of the Kirchberg Conference Centre.