European Economic Community

The European Economic Community (1957-2009) was an intergovernmental organization in.

In 1967 the institutions of the and  were merged with those of the Economic Community. This meant that while they technically they continued to exist separate from each other they were governed as a together a single personality under the name of the. By the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 the European Communities became part of and expanded institutional framework, as one of three pillars of the.

The Lisbon Treaty in 2009, abolished the European Economic Community as a part of the framework that made up the European Union, and instead established the European Union as an intergovernmental organization in it's own right.