1. On the history of the EEC/EC/EU. see, e.g., S. Weatherill,Law and Integration in the European Union.(Oxford, 1995). ch. 1.
2. Namely, the Assembly/Parliament, the High Authority/Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Court of Justice: see D.A.C. Freestone and J.S. Davidson,The Institutional Framework of the European Communities, (London/New York, 1988), chs 3–5.
3. The latter procedure is intended to recognise the relative power of the Member States by granting larger Member States more votes and protecting smaller Member States from consistently being outvoted by the larger Member States by requiring more than a bare majority of votes, but preventing one Member State from having an effective veto over certain matters (as would be the case under unanimous voting).
4. Barend Biesheuvel, Edmund Dell and Robert Marjolin.
5. See Capottortiet al., The European Union Treaty, (Oxford, 1986).