Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community - Protocol on relations with the Council of Europe

THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,

FULLY AWARE of the need to establish ties as close as possible between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Council of Europe, particularly between the European Parliament and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe,

TAKING NOTE of the recommendations of the Assembly of the Council of Europe,

HAVE AGREED upon the following provisions:

Article 1

The governments of the Member States are invited to recommend to their respective Parliaments that the members of the Assembly* whom these Parliaments are called upon to designate should preferably be chosen from among the representatives to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

* EDITORIAL NOTE:

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 of the SEA, and for historical reasons, the term ‘Assembly' has not been replaced by the terms ‘European Parliament'.

Article 2

The European Parliament of the Community shall forward each year to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe a report on its activities.

Article 3

The Commission shall communicate each year to the Committee of Ministers and to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe the general report provided for in Article 17 of this Treaty.

Article 4

The Commission shall inform the Council of Europe of the action which it has been able to take on any recommendations that may have been sent to it by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe under Article 15(b) of the Statute of the Council of Europe.

Article 5

The present Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and the Annexes thereto shall be registered with the Secretariat of the Council of Europe.

Article 6

Agreements between the Community and the Council of Europe may, among other things, provide for any other type of mutual assistance and cooperation between the two organizations and indicate the appropriate forms thereof.

Done at Paris this eighteenth day of April in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty one.

ADENAUER

Paul VAN ZEELAND

J. MEURICE

SCHUMAN

SFORZA

Jos. BECH

STIKKER

VAN DEN BRINK