EC merger agreement

The EC merger treaty (officially a treaty for the establishment of a common council and a common commission of the European Communities , rarely also the Treaty of Brussels ) led to the establishment of a common commission and a common council of the then three European communities ( European Economic Community , European Coal Community and Steel and the European Atomic Energy Community ). The merger agreement was signed in Brussels on April 8, 1965 and came into force on July 1, 1967 .

According to the agreement on common organs for the European Communities of March 25, 1957, which according to the final act was already part of the Rome Treaties , the three communities had a common parliamentary assembly (now the European Parliament ), a common court of justice and a common one before 1967 Economic and Social Committee shared. However, the EEC , ECSC and Euratom each had their own Commission (referred to as the High Authority in the case of the ECSC ) and their own Council of Ministers. The merger agreement brought together the Special Council of Ministers ( ECSC ) and the two Councils of Ministers ( EEC , Euratom) and the High Authority (ECSC) and the two commissions ( EEC , Euratom). In this way the amalgamation of the community organs was completed.

Since the European Union was founded by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the EC institutions have also been used for EU policy areas, which emerged directly from the EU Treaty . In 1997, the Merger Treaty was repealed by Article 9 (1) of the Amsterdam Treaty . Its essential elements were, however, taken over into the consolidated agreements ( EC Treaty , ECSC Treaty and Euratom Treaty ) and thus remained valid. After the expiry of the ECSC Treaty (2002) and the dissolution of the EC in the EU through the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, only Euratom of the original three communities still exists, which shares its organs with the European Union.