The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty which unified the

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institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC),

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(Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC). The treaty was signed in

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on 8 April 1965 and came into force on 1 July 1967. It set out that the

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should replace the High Authority of the ECSC, the Commission of the EEC and the Commission of Euratom, and that the Council of the European Communities should replace the Special Council of Ministers of the ECSC, the Council of the EEC and the Council of Euratom.EUR-Lex
Treaty of Brussels (Merger Treaty)
updated 21 March 2018, accessed 29 January 2021 Although each Community remained legally independent, they shared common institutions (prior to this treaty, they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Court of Justice) and were together known as the European Communities. This treaty is regarded by some as the real beginning of the modern

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. This treaty was abrogated by the

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signed in 1997:

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