European Atomic Energy Community Euratom at Val Duchesse in 1956 drew up the essentials of the new treaties. Euratom would foster co-operation in the nuclear field, at the time a very popular area, and would, along with the EEC, share the Common Assembly and Court of Justice of the ECSC, but not its executives. Euratom would have its own Council and Commission, with fewer powers than the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. On 25 March 1957, the Treaties of Rome (the Euratom Treaty and the EEC Treaty) were signed by the ECSC members and on 1 January 1958 they came
Convention on the association of the Netherlands Antilles with the European Economic Community September, 19 October, and 22 October, respectively. An Intergovernmental Conference was convened on 13 November, which signed the Convention. The actual Convention consists of four articles, the first of which establishes that the Netherlands Antilles shall be added to the (now ). Article 2 adds another protocol to the EEC Treaty, named . Article 3 concerns the ratification and article 4 the authentic versions of the text. The treaty entered into force on 1 October 1964, the first day of the month following the date of deposit of the last instrument of ratification by a signatory state, in this case