ABSTRACT
Each of the three separate communities – European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community (EEC) and Euratom – had its own distinct legal base. Although the Communities that were created covered coal and steel, atomic energy and a customs union and common market, their work programme was purely economic and there was always a political motive behind their creation. Another primary task of the EEC was to put flesh and bones on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Articles 38 to 46 of the EEC Treaty only having set out the general outlines of such a policy: defining the products to which it should apply and laying down its objectives in the most general terms. In July 1958 at a conference in Stresa the Foreign Ministers began the task of teasing out the CAP’s guiding principles and laying the basis of subsequent legislation on CAP.
