Second session of the ECSC Assembly (10-13/1/1953)

Between January 10 and 13, 1953 the European Parliament celebrated the second session on history. On this session, the Assembly of the ECSC defined the different Commissions created on it: Common Market, Investments / Financial Issues / Production Development, Social Issues, Political Issues & Foreign Relations, Transportation, Accountability & Community Administration from the Common Assembly and Common Assembly Regulation, Petitions and Immunities. It also was fixed the mandate of the Assembly of the ECSC parliamentarians expiring in the 1954 Ordinary session and the necessity of sharing with the Common Assembly of the Council of Europe the Bureau services. 

Constitutive Session of the Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community

Jean Monnet, president of  the High Common
Authority called the Constitutive Session of the
European Parliament 

The Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) celebrated its first session between September 10-13, 1952, called by the President of the High Common Authority, Jean Monnet. In this session, it was constituted two commissions inside the Assembly: Regulation and Accountability and Organization charged in this case of reporting about the necessary number of Parliamentary commissions. But the most important issue debated and accorded in this Constitutive Session of the Assembly of the ECSC was the invitation from the Council to the Assembly in order to study the constitution of a future European Political Community putting further the European integration started with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The Assembly accepted the invitation and therefore it was called for September 15, 1952, an enlarged Assembly formed by 87 members, 9 more than the Assembly of the ECSC, in order to start the treaty creating the European Political Community.