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On 9th May, 1950, M. Robert Schuman, the then Foreign Minister of France, speaking at a Press Conference in Paris, outlined the idea of establishing a Community within Europe to control the production of coal and steel. “The French Government”, he stated, “propose to place the whole of the Franco-German production of coal and steel under a common high authority1 within an organisation open to the participation of other countries of Europe ... This will form the first concrete step towards a European Federation, which is indispensable for peace”2.
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The term is given in small letters as a description rather than as a title.
Bulletin Quotidien, 11th May, 1950.
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.
For details of this Conference, see the lecture of M. Schuman, published in Les Cahiers de Bruges, 1953, page 280 et seq.
Loc. cit., page 282.
Bulletin Quotidien, 28th June, 1950.
The French term entreprise is being translated in the present work by the American word “enterprise”.
Rapport de la Délégation Française sur le Traité instituant la C.E.C.A., published by, the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, October, 1951, page 30. This work is subsequently referred to by the abbreviation R.D.F.
Compte Rendu, Session ordinaire, 1951–1952, page 127.
By Messrs Adenauer for Germany; van Zeeland and Meurice for Bel¬gium; Schuman for France; Sforza for Italy; Bech for Luxembourg; Stikker and van den Brink for The Netherlands.
An analysis of these debates, as far as they concerned the Court, is to be found in Chapter 1. A list of the voting in the Parliaments is given in Appendix I A.
Le Monde, 26th July, 1952.
M. Schuman, when referring to this declaration, stated: “It was at six o’clock in the morning, owing to the general exhaustion — la lassitude général — that an outsider won this Derby — Luxembourg” — see Les Cahiers de Bruges, 1953, page 283.
Le Monde, 26th July, 1952.
See Art. 27 of the Rules of the Court.
Le Monde, 28th July, 1952.
Four of the judges having refused to swear before God, the oath adopted was: “I swear to fulfil my obligations with complete impartiality and not to divulge any secrets of the Court”. This may be compared with the oath later adopted — see Art. 2, par. 1 of the Rules, set out on page 34, below.
The postponement of the establishment of the Court from the proposed date of 10th August was on account of illness.
Le Monde, 11th December, 1952.
By Art. 7 of the Treaty, the organs of the Community are declared to be a High Authority, assisted by a Consultative Committee, a Common Assembly, a Special Council of Ministers and a Court of Justice.
Chronique de Politique Etrangère, January, 1953.
Idem.
Journal Officiel, 4th May, 1953.
loc. cit., 24th March, 1954.
Idem.
The above is the order of the seniority of the judges, which as all were elected at the same time, is determined according to age — see Art. 3, par. 1.2 of the Rules. Judges O. Riese and J. Rueff were President of the First and Second Chambers respectively for the judicial year 1953 — see Journal Officiel, 4th May, 1953.
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Valentine, D.G. (1954). Introduction. In: The Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0925-1_1
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