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« E.C.E. - E.C.S.C. / E.E.C. - E.C.S.C.» - Summary of the 65th session of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers and of the restricted meeting held in Luxembourg on 15.12.1959, 29 December 1959: Crisis of the Belgian coal industry (1 doc) Council of Europe - ECSC - Note: Resolution 157 (E.C.S.C. and crisis of the economic activity), 20 January 1959, 03/02/1959 (1 doc) Financial policy Financial report of the year 1958, 12/05/1959 Receipts and expenses of the ECSC - 7th general report: administrative expenses of the Community. General report on the Community’s finances - 1957-1958 (2 pamphlets) Prevision Statements - Budget of the ECSC for the 8th exercise, 1959/60 (sent by the EEC and the ECSC), 24/06/1959 Consultative Committee -Representation of Belgium at the ECSC Consultative Committee, 11 and 15/04/1959 Representation of the workers - Notes: Information on the ECSC Consultative Committee, 12/02 and 17/02/1959 Iron industry - Meeting of the ECSC Council on 10/03/59 preliminary to the 64th session of the Iron Industry Committee of the OEEC, 25/03/1959 Commercial policy - Draft agenda of the meeting of 3/04/59 of the ECSC Committee for commercial policy issues, 25/03/1959 - Memorandum of the meeting of 3/04/59 of the ECSC Committee for commercial policy issues, 07/04/1959 - Note of Mr. Bassette on the commercial policy of the ECSC concerning coal issues and the recent United States reactions, 04/05/1959 «Special issues - coal industry - social problems, mainly Belgium and Italy, February - September 1959» - Note of the ECSC of 11/02/59 concerning the request for opinion according to aubparagraph 8 of § 23 of the Convention in favour of the S.A. des Houillères Unies du Bassin de Charleroi, 17/02/1959 - Note on the structure and evolution of the Italian iron industry’s situation. 03/03/1959 - Letter demanding the application of §23 of the Convention in favour of the workers of the S.A. des Houillères Unies (France), 05/03/1959 - Letter demanding the application of § 23 of the Convention in favour of the licensed workers of the Monceau Fontaine coalmines, 19/03/1959 - Information note of the High Authority on the results of the study made by the Government on the proposals of the Conference on the Security of the Houilles Mines, 24/03/1959 - Letter of the ECSC informing about the agreement that benefits from § 23 of the Convention in favour of the licensed workers of the Monceau Fontaine coalmines, 24/03/1959 - Letter of the ECSC concerning the granting of the ECSC allowance, of expecting and unemployment for miners in the Belgian enterprises, 25/03/1959 - Establishment of a special temporary allowance concerning partial collective unemployment of Belgian miners because of lack of enterprise sales (decision and motivation), 25/03/1959 - Letter concerning the allocation from the ECSC concerning partial collective unemployment of Belgian miners because of lack of enterprise sales, 10/04/1959 - Letter, concerning the acquisition of the benefit of §3 by the coalmines Monceau-Fontaine, 10/04/1959 -Aid that could be attributed to licensed workers, 10/04/1959 - Modalities fixed by the High Authority concerning the establishment of the special temporary allowance for the miners, of the Belgian enterprises, in partial collective unemployment because of lack of enterprise sales, 22/04/1959 - Decision determining certain measures of application of the 25/03/59 decision (establishment of special allowance), 22/04/1959 - Letter relative to the payment modalities of the special allowances and the recourse to the syndicates. 18/04/1959 - Note relative to the special temporary allowance for the miners in partial collective unemployment because of lack of enterprise sales, 23/04/1959 - Letter relative to the special temporary allowance and the implication of the syndicates. 28/04/1959 - 1st Report of the permanent organ for the security in the coalmines, 29/04/1959 Letter informing of decision of the High Authority to urge the Council for the application of § 23 for workers of whom the dismissal is predicted by the company Rheinpreussen-Mine of Neumühl, 29/04/1959 - Program of the educational session of the underground supervisors in the coalmines of the Community on 4 and 5/06/59 in Luxembourg, 08/05/1959. -Message concerning the company Rheinpreussen-Mine, 08/05/1959 - Resolutions adopted by the European Assembly on 14/05/1959 (related to - The security in the coalmines 21/05/1959 -The evolution within the ECSC of the hygiene, of medicine and of work security 21/05/1959) - Letter detailing the missing information for deciding on the request of the company Rheinpreussen-Mine. 26/05/1959 - Note to the Special Council of Ministers concerning the request for the application of the Convention related to the transitory dispositions to various Italian steel enterprises, 10/06/1959 - Note to the Special Council of Ministers for the application of the Convention relative to the transitory dispositions for the company Commentryenne des Aciers fins Vanadium Alloys, 04/06/1959 - Request for the application of the Convention related to transitory dispositions at Charbonnage de Gosson-Kessales (Liege basin), 03/07/1959 Note to the Special Council of Ministers concerning the request for application of the Convention relative to the transitory dispositions for the coking plants Friedrich Ernestine cookeries and Dannenbaum and the charcoal factory Prinz Regent, 28/07/1959 - Memo to the Council of Ministers concerning the revision of article 56 of the Treaty instituting the ECSC, 07/08/1959 - Letter of information on the decision of urging the Council’s opinion for benefiting the workers of the coalmines S.A. Elisabeth (Auvelais) with temporary special aid, 11/08/1959 - Letter informing of the Council’s acceptance of the granting of special aid to the workers of the coalmines S.A. Hainaut (Borinage basin), 19/08/1959 - Note to the Special Council of Ministers related to the request for special aid for the workers of Basse-Aumance mines (Allier department), 20/09/1959 - Letter informing of the decision to urge from the Council special aid for the workers of the mining exploitation company of the Basse Aumance, Buxière mines (Allier department), 26/09/1959 ECSC – High Authority - Composition - Information concerning the renewal of the High Authority members, 07/01/1959 - Telex concerning the nomination of the ECSC High Authority’s president and vice-president, 08/01/1959 - Note on the general renewal of the ECSC High Authority’s members (resignations, nominations, designations, problems, procedure, composition of the High Authority), 09/01/1959 -Letter of 8/01/59 concerning the H.A.’s 9th member, 13/01/1959 High Authority - composition -Dispatch pf a copy of the 8/02/1959 letter (High Authority’s renewal problem), 24/02/1959 -Letter concerning the problem of the renewal of the High Authority, 14/03/1959 -Request to send the letter of 9/02/59 concerning the renewal of the High Authority, 17/02/1959 - Dispatch of the letter of 8/02/59, 24/02/1959 - Copy of the telex concerning the death of Mr. Franz Bluecher, 31/03/1959 -Introduction letter on the situation of changes of the Staff of the High Authority- of the Parliamentary Assembly and of the Special Council of Ministers from 1/01/59 to 31/03/59, 22/05/1959 and 29/05/1959 -C.V. of Mr. Piero Malvestiti, 26/06/1959 -Letter reminding the necessity of a member of the Conference of the member states Governments’ Representatives, having the syndicate’s trust; 09/07/1959 accompanied by: - Copy of a letter dated 8/01/59 concerning the designation of the High Authority’s 9th member, 13/01/1959 - Communication of the European Syndicates Committee concerning Paul Finet and the High Authority’s renewal, 07/07/1959 - Declaration of the Presidency of the common syndicate of coalminers and iron industry workers of the European Community, on the necessity of according the post of the co-opted member of the High Authority to a personality from the syndicates, 07/07/1959 - Note introducing couriers concerning the necessity of a member of the Conference of the member states Governments’ Representatives, having the syndicates’ trust (receivers and dates: E.C.S.C. of 13/01/59 -above-, Conference of the member states Governments’ Representatives of 7 and 9/07/59), 13/07/1959 - Procedure of nomination of the High Authority members, procedure of the President’s and vice-president’s designation, publication in the official journal, procedure on the practical plan and list of the in function members of the High Authority on 20/07/59, 20/07/1959 -Note informing of the duration of the mandate of the High Authority’s members, 27/07/1959 - abstract of the provisional draft of the minutes of the Conference of the member states Governments’ Representatives on 5/07/59, 30/07/1959 - Note concerning the renewal of the mandate of ECSC High Authority’s vice-president, 07/08/1959 - Letter requesting the change of a formulation in the minutes of the Conference of the member states Governments’ Representatives 25/07/59 concerning the renewal of the ECSC’s High Authority, 14/08/1959 - Letter introducing an article of the «Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant» on the indemnities to grant to members of Commissions and the H.A. who leave their institution (article not attached), 14/08/1959 - Letter informing on the substitution demanded on the dispatch of 14/08/59 above, 21/08/1959 - Audience Note concerning the German request to be represented by Mr. Fritz Hellwig, 21/08/1959 -C.V. of Mr. Fritz Hellwig, 21/08/1959 - Telex proposing to the member states to nominate Mr. Fritz Hellwig and agreeing to the request for Mr. Malvestiti’s designation as president and Mr. Spierenburg and Mr. Coppe as vice-presidents of the ECSC High Authority, 26/08/1959 - Letter informing that Mr. Hellwig has been nominated, from the member states, member of the High Authority. 03/09/1959 - Letter informing that the eight members of the High Authority have accepted their nomination, 04/09/1959 - Letter informing that the eight members of the High Authority have co-opted Mr. Paul Finet as the ninth member of the H.A., reminding of the Governments’ right to veto and requesting the approval by the Belgian Government of Mr. Piero Malvestiti (H.A president.), Mr. D. Spierenburg and Mr. A. Coppe (H.A vice-presidents.), 05/09/1959 - Letter informing that the Belgian Government accepts Mr. Finet as ninth member, Mr. P. Malvestiti as president, Mr. Spierenburg and Mr. Coppe as vice-presidents of the H. A., 11/09/1959 - Telex: - acceptance by the Government and by himself of the nomination of Mr. Finet as ninth member, 05/09/1959 - Acceptance by the Government and by themselves of Mr.Piero Malvestiti as president of the H.A. and M Spierenburg and Coppe as vice-presidents, 05/09/1959 -Composition of the H.A., 14/09/1959 -Letter informing of the end of the renewal of the ECSC High Authority’a members, 23/10/1959 - Minutes of the Constitution of the ECSC High Authority, 23/10/1959 Freights of internal navigation, February - October 1959 - Draft agenda of the ad hoc Committee meeting « Fluvial freights » of 5 and 6/03/59 and the related introductory note, 26/02/1959 - Meeting of the ad hoc Committee « Fluvial freights » of 5 and 6/06/59: draft agenda, its introductory note and the draft minutes, 26/03/1959 - Elements that should be included on a transport contract, 14/04/1959 - Meeting of the ad hoc Committee « Fluvial freights » of 27 and 28/04/1959: draft agenda, its introductory note and the draft minutes (- registration of the freights for international transports by navigable route non – covered by the agreement of 9/7/59, 22/04/1959 - Means for profit, creation of scholarship, 22/04/1959 -various, 22/04/1959) - Report of the ad hoc Committee « Fluvial freights » of the 57th session of the Conference of the member states Governments’ Representatives of 5/02/59 in Luxembourg (registration of the freights for international transports by navigable route non – covered by the agreement of 9/7/59 and means for profit, creation of scholarship), 05/05/1959 - Draft minutes of the meeting of 27 and 28/4/59 in Luxembourg of the ad hoc Committee «fluvial freights », 22/05/1959 - Draft minutes of the meeting of 27 and 28/4/59 in Luxembourg of the ad hoc Committee «fluvial freights » (registration of the freights for international transports by navigable route non – covered by the agreement of 9/7/59 and means for profit), 22/04/1959 - Request for information on the daily freights’ and long-term contracts’ evolution level, 05/08/1959 - Agreement between the Swiss Federal Council and the ECSC related to the Rhine freights, signed on 24.07/59,08/08/1959 - Request of the Dutch delegation for modification of the draft minutes of the meeting of the ad hoc Committee « Fluvial freights » on 27 and 28/4/59, 15/09/1959 - Reply to the above request for information of 5/8/59 (waiting the consultation of the interested professional centres, 24/10/1959)

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