ABSTRACT
The European Coal and Steel Community was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951, which was signed by Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, with the objective of creating a single market in coal and steel. These six states decided to widen their economic co-operation by extending the notion of the single market beyond coal and steel. To this end they created two new Communities, the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community by two Treaties of Rome signed on 25 March 1957.
