Treaty of Rome

Categories: EU treaties

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The Treaty of Rome signing ceremony
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Signatures in the Treaty

The Treaty of Rome refers to the treaty which established the European Economic Community (EEC) and was signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on March 25, 1957. Its original full name was 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 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 the Treaty of Rome as 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:


Timeline of the Treaties and EU Constitution

European Union - EU treaties, structure, history
1952 1958 1967 1987 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)
Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community)
...European Communities: ECSC, EEC (EC, 1993), Euratom Justice &
Home Affairs 		 
Police & Judicial Co-operation
in Criminal Matters (PJCCM)
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
Treaty of
Paris 		Treaties of
Rome 		Merger
Treaty 		Single European
Act 		Treaty of
Maastricht 		Treaty of
Amsterdam 		Treaty of
Nice 		European
Constitution
"THREE PILLARS" - European Communities (ECSC, EC, Euratom), Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Justice and Home Affairs
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