Treaty of Rome

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The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC) and was signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (the latter three as part of the Benelux) on March 25, 1957. According to George McGhee, former US ambassador to West Germany, it was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings<ref>http://copy_bilderberg.tripod.com/bildhist.htm</ref>. The treaty's original full name was the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community -- however the Treaty of Maastricht amended it and among other things removed the word "Economic" from the name of both the community and the treaty. The treaty is therefore now generally called the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC) or the EC Treaty.

Another treaty was signed the same day establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom): both treaties in conjunction with the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, which expired in 2002, have become known as the Treaties of Rome (plural). As well as the Treaty of Rome the Euratom Treaty came into force on 1 January 1958.

The original Treaty was amended by all the subsequent treaties; the Treaty of Nice sought to consolidate all treaties into one document but the EC Treaty as amended remains a single section within this, with its own article numbering.

Though the entry in force of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993 was a further step in the direction of European integration, most decisions of the institutions of the Union are still taken on the legal basis of EC Treaty, which remains the main source of communitary legislation.

The treaty was signed by the following:

Paul-Henri Spaak and J. Ch. Snoy et d'Oppuers on behalf of Belgium.
Konrad Adenauer and Walter Hallstein on behalf of Germany.
Christian Pineau and Maurice Faure on behalf of France.
Antonio Segni and Gaetano Martino on behalf of Italy.
Joseph Bech and Lambert Schaus on behalf of Luxembourg.
Joseph Luns and J. Linthorst Homan on behalf of the Netherlands.

Timeline of the Treaties and EU Constitution

European Union - treaties, structure, history

1952	1958	1967	1993	1999	2003	?
		EC - European Community...	E U R O P E A N U N I O N ( E U )
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
	European Economic Community (EEC)		European Community (EC)
		...European Communities: ECSC, EEC (EC, 1993), Euratom	Justice & Home Affairs
			Justice & Home Affairs	Police & Judicial Co-operation in Criminal matters (PJCC)
			Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
	Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community)
Treaty of Paris	Treaties of Rome	Merger Treaty	Treaty of Maastricht	Treaty of Amsterdam	Treaty of Nice	European Constitution

"THREE PILLARS" - European Communities (EC, Euratom), Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal matters (PJCC)

Preceded by: Treaty of Paris (1951)	EU treaties	Succeeded by: Merger Treaty (1965)

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