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	The '''European Community''' ('''EC'''), most important of three '''European Communities''', was originally founded on ], ] by the signing of the ] under the name of '''European Economic Community'''. The 'Economic' was removed from its name by the ] in 1992, which at the same time effectively made the European Community the first of ] of the ], called the '''Community''' (or '''Communities''') '''Pillar'''.

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	== European Community ==

	'''European Communities''' is the name given collectively to the ] (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC), and the ] (Euratom), when in 1967, they were first merged under a single institutional framework with the ].

	Soon after the establishment of the ECSC two more European Communities were proposed: ] and ]. They were later rejected.

	The EEC, established in 1958, soon became the most important of these three communities, subsequent treaties adding it further areas of competence that extended beyond the purely economic areas, while the other two communities remained extremely limited. Furthermore in 2002 the ECSC ceased to exist with the expiration of the ] which established it. Seen as redundant, no effort was made to retain it — its assets and liabilities were transferred to the EC, and coal and steel became subject to the EC treaty.

	With the entry into force of the ] in November of 1993, the European Economic Community changed its name and became the European Community. With the two other pillars, the European Community also became known as the European Union which exists today.

	In October 2005 the ] was created- the first covering both the ] and some non-member states (like the ]).

	== Community Pillar ==

	The Maastricht treaty turned the European Communities as a whole into the first of ] of the European Union, also known as the '''Community Pillar''' or '''Communities Pillar'''. In Community Pillar policy areas decisions are made collectively by ] (QMV).

⚫	== European Economic Community ==

	The European Economic Community (EEC) was an organization established (1958) by treaty between the ECSC countries ], ], ], ], the ], and ], known informally as the Common Market (the Six). The EEC was the most significant of the three treaty organizations that were consolidated in 1967 to form the European Community (EC; known since the ratification 1993 of the Maastricht treaty as the European Union, EU). The EEC had as its aim the eventual economic union of its member nations, ultimately leading to political union. It worked for the free movement of goods, service, labour and capital, the abolition of trusts and cartels, and the development of joint and reciprocal policies on labour, social welfare, agriculture, transport, and foreign trade.

	In 1956, the ] proposed that the Common Market be incorporated into a wide European free-trade area. After the proposal was vetoed by President ] and France in November 1958, the UK together with Sweden engineered the formation (1960) of the ] (EFTA) and was joined by other European nations that did not belong to the Common Market (the Seven). Beginning in 1973, with British, ], and ] accession to the EEC, the EFTA and the EEC negotiated a series of agreements that would ensure uniformity between the two organisations in many areas of economic policy, and by 1995, all but four EFTA members had joined the European Union.

	One of the first important accomplishments of the EEC was the establishment (1962) of common price levels for agricultural products. In 1968, internal tariffs (tariffs on trade between member nations) were removed on certain products.

	==The future of the European Communities==

	The signed but unratified ] would merge the European Community with the other two pillars of the European Union, making the European Union the legal successor of both the European Community and the present-day European Union. It was for a time proposed that the European Constitution should repeal the ] treaty, in order to terminate the legal personality of Euratom at the same time as that of the European Community, but this was not included in the final version.

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