Euratom
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The European Atomic Energy Community, or EURATOM, is an international organisation composed of the members of the European Union. It was established on March 25, 1957, by a second treaty of Rome, signed the same day as the more famous Treaty of Rome, instituting the European Economic Community (EEC). The European Atomic Energy Community is a separate entity, but membership and organization is fully integrated with the European Union. The organisational structures of EURATOM and EEC (together with the now defunct European Coal and Steel Community -ECSC-), merged in 1967, by virtue of the Merger Treaty (signed in 1965).
The denomination "the Communities" (plural), as in the Commission of the European Communities and the Court of Justice of the European Communities are occasional reminders of the existence of two distinct institutions.
The purposes of Euratom were to create a specialist market for atomic energy and distribute it through the Community and to develop nuclear energy and sell surplus to non-Community States.
Some suggest that Euratom should disappear in a similar way to ECSC and merge the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community in a new European Community and Treaties.
Presidents of the European Atomic Community, 1958-1967
See also
- Institutions of the European Union
- History of the European Union
- EU Directorate General Joint Research Centre - often incorrectly referred to as Euratom due to it being its origin.
- European Energy Community
External links
- [DG Energy and Transport] website on Nuclear Issues.
Timeline
Evolution of the Structures of European Union| European Union - treaties, structure, history | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 1958 | 1967 | 1993 | 1999 | 2003 | ? |
| EC - European Community... | E U R O P E A N U N I O N ( E U ) | |||||
| European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) | ||||||
| European Economic Community (EEC) | European Community (EC) | |||||
| ...European Communities: ECSC, EEC (EC, 1993), Euratom | Justice & Home Affairs | |||||
| Police & Judicial Co-operation in Criminal matters (PJCC) | ||||||
| Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) | ||||||
| Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community) | ||||||
| Treaty of Paris (1951)>Treaty of Paris | Treaty of Rome>Treaties of Rome | Merger Treaty>Merger Treaty | Maastricht Treaty>Treaty of Maastricht | Amsterdam Treaty>Treaty of Amsterdam | Treaty of Nice>Treaty of Nice | Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe>European Constitution |
| "THREE PILLARS" - European Communities (EC, Euratom), Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal matters (PJCC) | ||||||
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