ABSTRACT
As the title of this book indicates the focus of this study is the competition and industrial policies of the European Communities (EC). The title is however in need of some immediate amplification since it could be taken to imply that the book is directly concerned with national competition and industrial policies. This is not the intention. The book takes as its context attempts by member states to integrate their economies. The matters under discussion will therefore be the powers and policies arising from (a) the Paris Treaty of 1951, which find their expression in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); and (b) the Rome Treaty of 1957, which similarly find their expression in the European Economic Community (EEC). We shall therefore be concentrating on policies evolved at Community level although inevitably we shall have to take account of the interaction between national and Community policies. Given that the Paris Treaty was merely concerned with coal and steel, while the Rome Treaty covers the rest of the economy (except certain nuclear matters 1 ), inevitably there will be a bias towards EEC policies although the more dirigiste character of the Paris Treaty will mean that the space devoted to the ECSC will not fully reflect the minority position of coal and steel in the economy of the present-day Community.
