- Rey Commission
The Rey Commission is the
European Commission that held office from2 July 1967 toJune 30 1970 . Its President was Jean Rey.Work
It was the first Commission of the merged European Communities. It was the successor to the
Hallstein Commission and was succeeded by theMalfatti Commission . The Commission worked to reinforce the Community's institutions and increase the powers of theEuropean Parliament . It also campaigned for an elected Parliament, which was achieved later in 1979. It oversaw the competition of thecustoms union in 1968. [ [http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/president/history/rey/index_en.htm Discover the former Presidents: The Rey Commission] ,Europa (web portal) , Accessed 23 August 2007]Rey played an important role the Summit of The Hague in 1969, where the European leaders decided to relaunch European integration with two new initiatives: on the one hand,
Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (EMU), and on the other hand, European Political Cooperation (EPC), which foreshadow theeuro and theCommon Foreign and Security Policy of theEuropean Union today.Finally, in 1970, the last year of this mandate, Rey managed to win the European governments' support for his proposal to give the Community "own resources". This meant that the EEC no longer depended exclusively on contributions by the member states, but could complete these with revenues from customs duties, levies on agricultural products from outside the Community, in addition to a share of the VAT revenue.
Membership
The commission was composed of 14 members, 3 from Italy, West Germany, and France, 2 from Belgium and the Netherlands and 1 from Luxembourg.
ummary by political leanings
The colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:
References
External links
* [http://ec.europa.eu/ European Commission Website]
* [http://aei.pitt.edu/1535/01/Commission_list.pdf PDF Archive of Commission Membership] (not all Rey Commission members included)
* [http://www.cps.org.uk/pdf/pub/71.pdf PDF Analysis of Political Experience of Commission Membership] by UK politician Tom King and theCentre for Policy Studies
* [http://www.fep.up.pt/investigacao/seminarios/04.10.15_Maes.pdf NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM, August 2004 Working Paper on Macroeconomic and Monetary policy-making at the European Commssion 1957 to 1969]
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