ABSTRACT
The European Community (EC) consists of three separate organisations, namely: the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951; the European Economic Community (EEC) created by the Treaty of Rome in 1957; and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) set up by a second Treaty of Rome in 1957.2 The original signatories of each of the three treaties were the same six countries, namely: Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. In 1965, a single Council and a single Commission were established to replace institutions pertaining to the individual organisations, and the whole has since been commonly referred to simply as the European Community.
