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The Finet Authority was the third High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), between 1958 and 1959. Its president was Paul Finet of Belgium.
There were two more High Authorities before the institutions of the ECSC were merged with those of the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community in 1967 to become the European Communities.
In addition to Paul Finet of Belgium, as president, the Authority comprised; [1]
Dirk Spierenburg of Netherlands, First Vice-President
Albert Coppé of Belgium, Second Vice-President
Franz Blücher of Germany (until he died on 26 March 1959)
Léon Daum of France
Enzo Giacchero of Italy
Heinz Potthof of Germany
Roger Reynaud of France
Albert Wehrer of Luxembourg
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The Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities (EC) – the collective term for the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) – took effect on 1 January 1973. This followed ratification of the Accession treaty which was signed in Brussels on 22 January 1972 by the Conservative prime minister Edward Heath, who had pursued the UK's application to the EEC since the late 1950s. Denmark and Ireland also joined as part of the same expansion but Norway, who had signed the treaty, declined to ratify it and so it was amended to exclude that country. The ECSC and EEC would later be integrated into the European Union under the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties in the early 1990s and mid-2000s.
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