Rules of procedure of the European Economic and Social Committee

Background and further information:

The Economic and Social Committee was set up by the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, which were signed in Rome on 25 March 1957 and entered into force on 1 January 1958. Since then, these two treaties have been amended several times.

When the codified version of these Rules of Procedure came into force on 15 March 2019, the foundation texts which concern the European Economic and Social Committee were contained in the Treaty on European Union (Article 13) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Articles 300 to 304) as respectively amended and established by the Treaty of Lisbon, which was signed on 13 December 2007 and came into force on 1 December 2009.

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European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en

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