European Atomic Energy Community

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The European Atomic Energy Community, or EURATOM, is an international organization composed of the members of the European Union. It was established on March 25, 1957, by a second treaty of Rome, signed the same day as the more famous Treaty of Rome which instituted the European Economic Community (EEC). The European Atomic Energy Community is a separate entity, but membership and organization is fully integrated with the European Union. The organisational structures of EURATOM and EEC (together with the now defunct European Coal and Steel Community -ECSC-), merged in 1967, by virtue of the Merger Treaty (signed in 1965).

The denomination "the Communities" (plural), as in the Commission of the European Communities and the Court of Justice of the European Communities are occasional reminders of the existence of two distinct institutions.

The purposes of Euratom were to create a specialist market for atomic energy and distribute it through the Community and to develop nuclear energy and sell surplus to non-Community States.

Some suggest that Euratom should disappear in a similar way to ECSC and merge the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community in a new European Community and Treaties. In particular, that was proposed during the development of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe; however, it was decided to exclude Euratom from the legal personality of the new European Union, because of concerns that anti-nuclear sentiment in some member states would then be needlessly turned against the constitution.^{[citation needed]}

1 Presidents of the European Atomic Community, 1958-1967
2 See also
3 External links
4 Timeline

[edit] Presidents of the European Atomic Community, 1958-1967

The five member Commission was lead by only three Presidents, all from France.

Louis Armand (France) 1958-1959 - Armand Commission
Étienne Hirsch (France) 1959-1962- Hirsch Commission
Pierre Chatenet (France) 1962-1967- Chatenet Commission

[edit] See also

Institutions of the European Union
History of the European Union
EU Directorate General Joint Research Centre - often incorrectly referred to as Euratom due to it being its origin.
European Energy Community
Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements (now Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements)
SCK•CEN (Flanders, Belgium)
Energy policy of the European Union

[edit] External links

DG Energy and Transport website on Nuclear Issues.
Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM)
History of the Rome Treaties European NAvigator
Europedia: Guide to European policies and legislation

[edit] Timeline

Evolution of the Structures of European Union

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Treaties, structure and history of the European Union


1951/1952	1957/1958	1965/1967	1992/1993	1997/1999	2001/2003	2007/2009 ?
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
	Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community)
	European Economic Community (EEC)		European Community (EC)
		...European Communities: ECSC, EEC (EC, 1993), Euratom	Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)
				Police & Judicial Co-operation in Criminal matters (PJCC)
			Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
			E U R O P E A N U N I O N ( E U )
Treaty of Paris	Treaty of Rome	Treaty of Brussels	Treaty of Maastricht	Treaty of Amsterdam	Treaty of Nice	Treaty of Lisbon
			"THREE PILLARS" - ECs (ECSC, EEC/EC, Euratom), CFSP, PJCC