ABSTRACT
The original aims of the EEC (now EC) were set out in a Resolution of Foreign Ministers of the ECSC in June 1955:
These broadly expressed objectives found expression in Article 2 of the EC Treaty, which provides that:
Article 3 of the EC Treaty now provides that the activities of the Community shall include:
In all the above activities, the Community ‘shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women’ (Article 3(2) of the EC Treaty) and to take into account the need for environmental protection.
