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 * The Merger Treaty (1965) **

 The Merger Treaty, also called Brussels Treaty, has been signed on April 8th, 1965 in Brussels; it entered in force since July 1st, 1967. It provided for a Single Commission and a Single Council of the then three European Communities. More precisely, it gathered the executive bodies of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC).  It set out that the Council and the Commission (both) of the EEC should substitute the Commission and Council of Euratom and the High Authority and Council of the ECSC. Although each Community remained legally independent, they shared common institutions (NB: they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Court of Justice, prior to this treaty). They were together considered as the European Communities. This treaty was abrogated by the Amsterdam Treaty signed in 1997. The Article 9(1) of the Amsterdam Treaty repealed it: "Without prejudice to the paragraphs following hereinafter, which have as their purpose to retain the essential elements of their provisions, the Convention of March 25th, 1957 on certain institutions common to the European Communities and the Treaty of April 8th, 1965 establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities, but with the exception of the Protocol referred to in paragraph 5, shall be repealed."

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