On 12 January 1966, Henri Étienne, Head of Division of the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), hands to Karl-Heinz Narjes, Head of Cabinet to the President of the Commission Walter Hallstein, a summary note from Jean Maurin, Member of the Executive Secretariat of the Commission, which recalls the details of the development of the political position of Belgium and that of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, since the beginning of the empty chair crisis on 30 June 1965.