Rey Commission
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The Rey Commission is the European Commission that held office from 2 July (or July 6) 1967 – June 30 (or 1 July) 1970. It consisted of its president, Jean Rey, and the other commissioners. It was the successor to the Hallstein Commission and was succeeded by the Malfatti Commission.
The Rey Commission undertook to reinforce the Community institutions and won increased powers for the European Parliament and advocated its election by universal suffrage. This commission oversaw the completion of the customs union (1968).
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 Community, in addition to a share of the VAT revenue.
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[edit] Membership
The commission was composed of 14 members, 3 from Italy, West Germany, and France, 2 from Belgium and the Netherlands and 1 from Luxembourg.
| Portfolio(s) | Commissioner | Member state | Party affiliation | Notes |
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| President;Secretariat General;Legal Service;Spokesman’s Service | Jean Rey |  Belgium |
PRL | |
| Vice-president;Agriculture | Sicco Mansholt |  Netherlands |
PvdA | |
| Vice-president;Social Affairs;Personnel/Administration | Lionello Levi Sandri |  Italy |
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| Vice-president;Research and Technology;Distribution of Information;Joint Research Center | Fritz Hellwig |  West Germany |
CDU | |
| Vice-president;Economic and Finance;Statistical Office | Raymond Barre |  France |
none | |
| Budgets;Credit and Investment;Press and Information | Albert Coppé | Belgium |
CD&V | |
| Internal Market;Regional Policy | Hans von der Groeben | West Germany |
none (CDU advisor) | |
| Competition | Maan Sassen | Netherlands |
KVP | |
| Development Assistance | Henri Rochereau | France |
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| Industrial Affairs | Guido Colonna di Paliano | Italy |
Resigned 8 May 1970, not replaced.
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| Foreign Trade;Enlargement;Assistance to developing countries | Jean-François Deniau | France |
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| Transport | Victor Bodson |  Luxembourg |
LSAP | |
| Vice-president;Energy | Wilhelm Haferkamp | West Germany |
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| Foreign relations | Edoardo Martino | Italy |
[edit] Summary by political leanings
The colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:
| affiliation | number of commissioners |
|---|---|
| right leaning / conservative | |
| liberal | |
| left leaning / socialist | |
| unknown/independent |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- European Commission Website
- PDF Archive of Commission Membership (not all Rey Commission members included)
- PDF Analysis of Political Experience of Commission Membership by UK politician Tom King and the Centre for Policy Studies
- NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM, August 2004 Working Paper on Macroeconomic and Monetary policy-making at the European Commssion 1957 to 1969
| Preceded by Hallstein Commission |
European Commission | Succeeded by Malfatti Commission |
