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CEE commission
The
Rey Commission
is the
European Commission
that held office from 2 July 1967 to 30 June 1970. Its president was
Jean Rey
.
Work
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It was the first commission of the
merged
European Communities
. It was the successor to the
Hallstein Commission
and was succeeded by the
Malfatti Commission
. The commission worked to reinforce the
Communities' institutions
and increase the powers of the
European Parliament
. It also campaigned for an elected parliament, which was achieved later in 1979. It oversaw the competition of the
customs union
in 1968.
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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 the
euro
and the
Common Foreign and Security Policy
of the
European 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 EEC, in addition to a share of the VAT revenue.
Membership
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The commission was composed of 14 members, 3 from Italy, West Germany, and France, 2 from Belgium and the Netherlands and 1 from Luxembourg.
Summary by political leanings
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The colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:
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- Jean Rey
(
Rey Commission, 1967?70
)
- Franco Maria Malfatti
(
Malfatti Commission, 1970?72
)
- Sicco Mansholt
(
Mansholt Commission, 1972?73
)
- Francois-Xavier Ortoli
(
Ortoli Commission, 1973?77
)
- Roy Jenkins
(
Jenkins Commission, 1977?81
)
- Gaston Thorn
(
Thorn Commission, 1981?85
)
- Jacques Delors
(
Delors Commission, 1985?95
)
- Jacques Santer
(
Santer Commission, 1995?99
)
- Acting:
Manuel Marin
(
Santer Commission, 1999
)
- Romano Prodi
(
Prodi Commission, 1999?2004
)
- Jose Durao Barroso
(
Barroso Commission, 2004?09
)
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