New fonds
21/12/2011
The inventory for the Economic and Social Committee sub-fonds for the year 1975 (archival code CES.VOL17) 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 17 consists of 664 files (14 linear meters).
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 it has no legislative weight in the final decisions. In 1974, the CES was consulted in particular spheres such as: agricultural policy (mechanisation of agricultural methods, balance sheets of the CAP, the CAP within an international context and multilateral negotiations within the framework of the GATT); transport (improvement of transport means and conditions, cost, security, respect for the environment); economic and monetary policy (annual report, taxes on business transactions, European Fund for monetary cooperation); social policy (action plan in favour of migrant workers, employment); industrial and energy policy (security and regulation of toxic substances); first proposals for technological endeavours; Lomé Convention: composition of the Study Group; creation of a sub-committee : “European Union”.
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.
15/11/2011
The private papers (1953-2011) of Helmut von Verschuer are now open for consultation.
Mr. von Verschuer was assistant to Louis Rabot, Director for 'International Affairs' and deputy Director General of European Commission's Agricultural General Directorate (GD VI).
05/10/2011
A small collection (9 files) concerning the International Themonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) was deposited at the HAEU by Prof. McCray (University of California-Santa Barbara). It sheds light on the high-level scientific collaboration launched by EURATOM with other international partners on the building of a thermonuclear reactor. The files cover the period 1979-1989 and concern the political and managerial foundations of a project which is still operative.
02/02/2011
Johannes Westhoff was a Dutch High Officer active from 1950’s to late 1980’s in the Community. His collection of 39 files enlightens about the elaboration of Political European Community Treaty, later rejected in 1954 by the ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Six. Special insights are devoted to article-per-article elaboration with a complete reconstruction of the treaty process.
02/02/2011
The inventories for the Council of Ministers of the ECSC (CM1/1960 and CM1/1961) are now available on line. The inventories were transferred by the Council Archives in Brussels to Florence in June 2009. The fonds themselves comprises respectively 320 and 339 files which reveal the activities of the Council of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1960 and 1961. Besides the sessions of the Council and the Commission of Coordination (Cocor), the files principally deal with the customs union and transport issues, the common markets of coal and steel, the industrial reconversion process and the social problems in the Community. There are also some files concerning the association between the ECSC and United Kingdom and the relations with the International Organisations.
29/10/2010
The complete inventory to the Council of Ministers (CM2) fonds for 1966 is now available in PDF. This fonds is composed of 1,099 files and provides information on the meetings of the Ministers and Permanent Representatives of the EEC and ECSC during 1965.
After the "Empty Chair Crisis", the Luxembourg compromise ensured a resumption in the activities of the Communities. The year 1966 is thus noted by an acceleration in the Customs Union, an agreement on the financial regulation of the Common Agricultural policy and the welcome success of the Kennedy Round negotiations. With the exception of the administration of the internal organization of the Council itself and the financial situation of the CEE and CEEA, the documents primarily illustrate the activities of the Council with regard to the elaboration or coordination of the first joint policies, such as the Customs Union, transport, economic and monetary policy, agricultural and fisheries policies, trade policy with regard to the GATT negotiations (Kennedy Round) and social policy.
There are also documents on cooperation in the fields of energy (nuclear research) and industry, European political cooperation and relations with third countries (AMAS and Latin America) or with International Organizations such as the UN, FAO, and the Council of Europe.
The fonds is freely accessible.