The European community for coal and steel, abbreviation EGKS, often also Coal and Steel Community mentioned, was created on 18 April 1951 by the contract of Paris and came into force on 23 July 1952 and gave all member countries entrance to the factors of production for coal and steel, without having to pay tariff.

The EGKS contract decreased/went back to the Schuman plan, an initiative of the minister of foreign affairs Robert Schuman, in which it made a suggestion, which this agreed immediately for German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer: Common control of the mining industry of the member countries without tariff, which meant that the Ruhr district, which stood at that time under control of a non-German commission of winner powers and English crew and whose plants straight were continued to dismantle, a chance for new growth received, which should occur also in such a way - so it could turn as "flywheel" of economic reconstruction in West Germany (Wirtschaftswunder) freely.

Principal purpose of the contract was in the argumentation Schumans the safety device of the intra-European peace by the "pooling", thus mutual control, the war-important goods coal and steel, as well as the Sicherstellung of these factors of production crucial for the reconstruction after the Second World War.

In the Federal Republic of Germany at that time the richest coal occurrences of the six land France lay received thereby above all entrance to the Ruhr district, which lay in the before times English zone of occupation and up to then still from the sanctions of winner powers had to suffer whose raw material production and economic development. Since the self-sufficiency of the Saarland appeared, this a trend-setting possibility of the stock of raw materials places further to be profited and this to be controlled was. The founder states of the contract were Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

From the Coal and Steel Community, and the contract over the use of the nuclear energy EURATOM later the European community, which was developed further 1992 by the contract from Maastricht to the European union, developed for the contract over the European Economic Community (EEC).

The contract, which was closed for one duration by 50 years, ran out on 23 July 2002. It was not extended, its regulations were however essentially transferred to the EEC contract.

Organs

The organs of the community were:

• High Authority: Executive force with 9 independent members (Legislatives element)
• Advisory committee: 51 members from employer and employee and consumption supervisors
• Council of Ministers: Department minister of the einzelenen countries (forerunners of the advice of the European union)
• Common meeting: 142 members, forerunners of the European parliament, control of the High Authorities
• Court of Justice: 7 members with supranational iurisdiction (Judikatives element)

See also:

• Benelux contract
• History of the European union

Related links

• Information about the expiration of the period of validity of the contract
• Two states - two ways
• William Beermann over the meaning of the EGKS for the hard coal dismantling in the Ruhrgebeit
• William university The establishment of the EGKS (with Karikartur of Klaus Pielert 1950)
• Federal center for political education: Context with regard to foreign policy with picture of the signing
• Photography of the signature side tags with the seals of the eight signers
• France, Germany and the fight for the war-forming nature resources of the Rhine country explanation of the historical background. (On English)

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