New fonds

21/01/2013

The inventory for the Economic and Social Committee sub-fonds  for the year 1976 (archival code CES.VOL18) is now available online. The material was described and transferred to Florence by the Archives Service of the Economic and Social Committee in Brussels.

The sub-fonds CES.VOC 18 consists of 749 files (17 lm).

The Economic and Social Committee is a consultative organ, formed by the Treaty of Rome, which takes part in the decision making procedures by issuing opinions, but has no legislative weight in the final decisions. In 1976, the CES was consulted in particular spheres such as: agricultural policy (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, review of the CAP, first activity report of the European Fund for Regional Development for 1975); transport (convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution, relations with the countries of Eastern Europe, security, respect for the environment); economic and monetary policy (relations with Portugal - first financing agreement in the framework of pre-accession aid, annual report, taxes on business transactions,action programme in fiscal matters, information on the creation of a European bank for exports); social policy (employment and inflation, unemployment, illegal employment and migrant workers, report of the social situation in 1975; industrial and energy policy (nuclear safety code, objectives for 1985, results and prospects, regulation of harmful substances, four-year programme for the  development of computer technology.

11/01/2013

The Conference of Regions of North-West-Europe (CRNO) fonds was deposited in the HAEU in July 2011 by its Secretary General, I. B. F. Kormoss. It is composed of 300 archival files containing official records, correspondence and documents produced by this first cross-border organization in Europe from its creation in 1955 until its de facto dissolution in 1998. A collection of cartographic material produced by the CRONWE and by I. B. F. Kormoss as consultant for European institutions like the Commission of the European Communities as well as correspondence and working documents collected by M. Kormoss also form part of this fonds.

12/12/2012

The Assembly of Western European Union fonds was deposited in the HAEU by the Secretary General of the Assembly, Colin Cameron, on the WEU’s dissolution in May 2011. The material mainly comprises the so called “Assembly Documents” or working papers produced by various rapporteurs and the minutes and official records of the debates of the Assembly proceedings. In all there are descriptions for circa 3,000 items concerning the activities of the Assembly in international security and defence. This fonds will prove invaluable for research on: the various crises that have marked the period from 1955 to 2000 in the Middle-East, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, European space activities, the process of European integration and the evolution of Eastern Europe, Europe and Atlantic co-operation, scientific and technological advances and international terrorism.

 The fonds is now open for consultation and the inventory is available online.

28/11/2012

The Parliamentary bodies for cooperation and development (ACP) ‘ fonds illustrates the setting up, evolution and activities of the various bodies of cooperation, at parliamentary level, between the countries of the European Union and some countries which had previously been colonies of member states, initially associated African and Malagasy states (AAMS), and then African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP).

It retraces twenty-five years of meetings and joint conferences, of experiences dealing with the development of ACP and more broadly speaking of the AAMS and ACP, but also the constant dialogue between the EEC/European Union and the AAMS/ACP. This dialogue concentrated on a wide range of topics such as political and institutional forms of cooperation in development, the functioning and evolution of the Association, partnership, economic and commercial cooperation, the European Development Fund (EDF) and its management, financial and technical cooperation, cultural exchanges and industrial and technological cooperation.

The fonds has been divided into five sub-fonds each characterised by a specific convention for cooperation and classified following the chronological order of the conventions 1958 to 1980. The 490 files which constitute this fonds are organised according to procedure (meetings, reports, proposals for resolutions) and by document type (correspondence).

12/11/2012

The fonds illustrates the activities of François-Xavier Ortoli within the higher levels of the French administration (1966-1972) as commissaire général of the Plan and then as Minister for Economy and Finance as well as Minister for Industrial and Scientific Development. There is also material pertaining to his time as President (1973-1976) and subsequently as Vice-President of the Commission (1977-1984) with the portfolio of Economic and Financial Affairs. There are documents concerning his time as Director of the energy company Total (1984-1980) as well as his activities as consultant (such as Treno ad Alta Velocità) as well as his functions as Governor of the Asia-Europe Forum (ASEM).

The inventory clearly specifies where documents are subject to a delay in their consultation due to their dates. For some of these files, it is possible that a request for authorisation to consult the files can be made to the family of François-Xavier Ortoli (see the form for request for authorisation online).

20/04/2012

By means of the archives of the AEDE we can observe the evolution of this organisation from its federalist origins in 1956 up until the early 2000’s. The material allows us to retrace the AEDE’s activities since its earliest projects designed to enrich the teachers’ and their students’ knowledge of European issues and to  bring closer the various European teaching methods, up until its recent contribution to the introduction of a citizen’s Europe. The files also reveal the actions of the Association in favour of the development of education policies at a Community level, initiated with the equivalence of diplomas and professional training culminating in the inclusion of a legal status for education in the EU Treaty.

29/02/2012

The Uwe Kitzinger and Noël Salter fonds (UWK-NS) was deposited in the HAEU by Uwe Kitzinger in 2010 and is now open for consultation. It comprises 568 files and covers the period from 1947 to 1985.

Uwe Kitzinger (1928- ) was a British academic and European civil servant in Strasbourg and Brussels. Noël Salter (1929-1975) was a European civil servant who worked in Strasbourg, Paris and Brussels.

The material reflects both men’s enthusiasm for European cooperation and their efforts in ensuring Britain’s accession to the Common Market 1973. There are also documents on the Council of Europe, the Western European Union, Kitzinger’s time in the Sir Christopher Soames Cabinet and Salter’s work for a united Europe and its service to the developing world.

The inventory is available online as is the inventory to the annexed documentation that accompanies this fonds.

29/11/2011

The inventory to the fonds CM2/1967 is now available online. This fonds is composed of 1,185 files which include the minutes of the Ministerial meetings of the EEC and EAEC, of the Permanent Representatives and of the Conferences of Government Representatives, the administrative and financial documents from the Secretariat of the Council as well as the files documenting the activities of the Council.

Amongst the activities most frequently documented in the files were the common policies adopted in relation to the Customs Union, transport, agriculture (organisation of cereal, milk and dairy and poultry markets) and commercial policy ( Kennedy Round to the GATT). One series is specifically devoted to the activities of the EAEC (budgets, nuclear research and joint centers). A series on external relations with other international organisations completes the fonds.