Merger Treaty
Merger Treaty
Merger Treaty of the three Communities establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities
The Merger Treaty of 1965 merged the executive bodies of the existing European Communities into a single Commission and established a single Council of the European Communities.
As agreed in the Convention on certain institutions common to the European Communities, signed in Rome in 1957, there was already a single Parliamentary Assembly and a single Court of Justice.
Following the merger of the institutions, the three communities - the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) – became collectively known as the European Communities.
- Signed in: Brussels (Belgium) 8 April 1965
- Entry into force: 1 July 1967