Benelux Economic Union

A treaty to create a full Benelux economic union was not finalised until ten years after that.

It is the central administrative pillar of the Benelux Economic Union.

Together with Belgium and Luxembourg it forms the Benelux economic union.

The treaty establishing the Benelux Economic Union will expire in 2010.

The Benelux Economic Union involves an intergovernmental cooperation.

The Treaty between the Benelux countries establishing the Benelux Economic Union was limited to a period of 50 years.

In 1986, he became Deputy Secretary General of the Benelux Economic Union, based in Brussels.

Benelux Economic Union (Benelux)

The Treaty establishing the Benelux Economic Union has provided the Committee of Ministers with the following legal instruments: decisions, conventions, recommendations and directives.

The Benelux Economic Union came into existence in accordance with the terms of a treaty signed by the three participating nations, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Three of the signatories Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands had already abolished common border controls as part of the Benelux Economic Union.

The new treaty has no set time limit and the name of the Benelux Economic Union changed to Benelux Union to reflect the broad scope on the union.

Economically, Belgium joined the Benelux Economic Union in 1948 and was a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community from its creation in 1952.

Luxembourg is a member of the Benelux Economic Union and was one of the founding members of the European Economic Community (now the European Union).

In 1944, the government in exile signed a treaty with the Belgian and Dutch governments, creating the Benelux Economic Union and also signed into the Bretton Woods system.

The Benelux Parliament, formally the Benelux Interparliamentary Consultative Council, is one of the institutions of the Benelux Economic Union, more commonly referred to as the "Benelux".

The original establishing treaty, set to expire in 2010, was replaced by a new legal framework (called the Treaty revising the Treaty establishing the Benelux Economic Union), which was signed on 17 June 2008.

The 1985 Schengen Agreement - Agreement between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.

The treaty establishing the Benelux Economic Union (Benelux Economische Unie/Union Économique Benelux) was signed February 3, 1958 and came into force in 1960 to promote the free movement of workers, capital, services, and goods in the region.