ABSTRACT
Enlarging the Community necessarily affected the composition of its institutions; and since their composition had been laid down by Articles of the three Treaties establishing the three Communities, it was necessary to amend these Articles. It was in fact the question of institutions which involved most (but not all) of the 'adjustments to this Treaty' necessitated by the entry of new members which are referred to in Article 237 of the Treaty of Rome. The institutional adjustments agreed on are set out in Articles 10 to 23 of the Act of Accession. Although working out the new institutional arrangements was rather a slow process, it proved, as far as we were concerned, to be a matter of no difficulty whatever. Once the principle had been accepted—and no one challenged if—that we should have the same position in the institutions of the Community as France, Germany and Italy, the rest was little more than arithmetic and commonsense. Whether the other candidates had greater problems I do not know. They may have felt their votes (three each) should have been nearer to those of Belgium and the Netherlands (five each) than to that of Luxembourg (two). But this would have upset the carefully calculated formula for qualified majority voting set out in Article 14 of the Act of Accession.
