In February 1964, Dino del Bo, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1963 to 1967, clarifies the objectives of the two recommendations adopted by the High Authority on 16 January 1964 in order to protect the Community iron and steel market.

On the day before the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg takes up its duties, the Luxembourg daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort publishes an article by Albert Coppé, Vice-President of the High Authority, in which he outlines the economic and social role of the Schuman Plan.

On 1 October 1954, at the congress of the Dutch Trade Union Confederation in Amsterdam, Dirk Spierenburg, Member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), gives an address in which he outlines the important role of the ECSC and considers the High Authority’s main powers and responsibilities.

In his reply, four days after receiving Jean Monnet’s letter dated 1 August 1952, Jacques Camille Paris, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, assures the future first President of the High Authority that the ECSC Assembly will have complete autonomy concerning decisions on its future, without the services of the Council of Europe having any influence thereon.

In a letter dated 14 August 1952, Jacques Camille Paris, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, sends to Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the ECSC, a list of the services which the Secretariat-General of the Council of Europe can provide for the Common Assembly of the ECSC, on the occasion of its inaugural session on 10 September in Strasbourg.

Jean Monnet, chargé en tant que Président de la Haute Autorité de la CECA de convoquer la première session de l'Assemblée commune, adresse le 5 septembre 1952 une lettre circulaire aux délégués de l'assemblée. Il leur annonce les décisions prises pour assurer le bon fonctionnement de cette première session, dont l'organisation du Secrétariat provisoire, de même que l'ordre du jour prévu par le Traité: l'élection du Président et du Bureau et l'élaboration du Règlement intérieur.

In this confidential note, Pierre Uri, a senior official at the ECSC High Authority involved in negotiations on the Rome Treaties, considers the problems involved in the association of the overseas territories with the European Common Market and in the allocation of overseas investments of the Six.

In October 1972, the monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe comments on how the High Authority was established in Luxembourg.

Table listing the Luxembourg Members of the High Authority of the ECSC from 1952 to 1967, of the Commission of the EEC from 1958 à 1967 and of the Commission of the European Communities from 1967 to 2009.