Georges Berthoin, Head of the Private Office of Jean Monnet then René Mayer in their capacity as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg from 1952 to 1956. He was particularly involved in the introduction of the ECSC’s institutional structure, the implementation of the market in coal and steel, the establishment of the European tax and the creation of the Official Journal.
On 21 May 1955, in a letter sent to each government of the Six, Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), explains the reasons for his resignation. While noting that the revival of European integration is well under way, he says that he would be willing to go back on his decision.
Appointed by the Six at the Conference held in Messina, Italy, in June 1955, the Frenchman, René Meyer, succeeds his compatriot, Jean Monnet, who resigned in late 1954, as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), seen here at a conference in Luxembourg.
In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, who worked for Jean Monnet at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1953 to 1955 and was Director of the Information Service of the High Authority from 1953 to 1958, discusses his early days at the High Authority and describes how the Information Service was set up.
In his opening address at the inaugural session of the High Authority on 10 August 1952 in Luxembourg, Jean Monnet, first President of the institution, outlines the differences between the supranational institutions of the ECSC and those of the other European organisations.
On 10 August 1952, Jean Monnet delivers the opening address at the first session of the High Authority of the ECSC and outlines the operation and supranational aspect of the institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
On 9 June 1955, less than a week after the conclusion of the Messina Conference attended by the Six, Jean Monnet resigns in Luxembourg as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
On 28 June 1967, the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) meets for the last time in Luxembourg. On 1 July, the Treaty — signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965 — whereby the executive bodies of the ECSC, the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) were merged enters into force. The Single Commission will hold its first meeting in Brussels on 6 July with the Belgian, Jean Rey, in the chair.
It emerges from the judgment of the Court of 29 November 1959, in Case 8-55, Fédération charbonnière de Belgique/High Authority, that the High Authority enjoys a certain independence in determining the implementing measures necessary for the attainment of the objectives referred to in the ECSC Treaty or in the Convention on the transitional provisions which forms an integral part thereof.
In an address to Members of the Council of the Allied High Commission for Germany, Jean Monnet recalls the origins and the fundamental objectives of the Schuman Plan and defines the scope of the powers held by the ECSC High Authority.