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Chronology

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS AND CHRONOLOGY OF TURKEY-EU RELATIONS 1960-1969

1 March 1960	The EEC accepted to start the association negotiations with Greece. (1-2 March 1960)
17 March 1960	Turkey gave a memorandum to the Ambassadors of EEC countries stating that Turkey should not be put aside when launching negotiations with Greece.
21 April 1960	The EEC Commission announced that Turkey was not in a position to assume strict obligations as a future associate country in the way that Greece did.
3 May 1960	The Stockholm Convention signed by Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain establishing the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA) entered into force.
11 May 1960	European Social Fund was created.
27 May 1960	The relations between Turkey-EEC slowed down due to the coup d’état that took place in Turkey
14 October 1960	The new government formed in Turkey after the coup d’état announced that it was ready to assume all its obligations in short term and demanded the signing of an agreement between Turkey and the EEC similar to the one between the EEC and Greece.
17 October 1960	The EEC Ministerial Council adopted a wait-and-see position regarding the negotiations with Turkey and thus negotiations were suspended for an indefinite period.
6 March 1961	Greece completed its negotiations with the EEC
20 March 1961	By taking into account the proposal of the Commission, the EEC Ministerial Council presented to Turkey two options: the first option was to propose a commercial agreement within five year period and the promise to establish a customs union when the Turkish economy would reach the expected satisfactory level, the second option was a mutual assistance agreement. (20-21 March 1961)
9 July 1961	The Association Agreement between the EEC and Greece was signed.
31 July 1961	Ireland, Denmark and Italy applied for full membership to the European Communities. (31 July- 10 August 1961)
21 August 1961	Turkey sent a memorandum to each EEC members’ capital protesting that the negotiations with Turkey did not start while the EEC had already reached an agreement with Greece and declared that Turkey was not going to accept any other model beside the Customs Union .
1 September 1962	The first regulation on free movement of workers within the Community entered into force.
14 January 1962	The Common Agricultural Policy was established to create a single market for agricultural produces.
4 March 1962	Turkey sent a memorandum to the EEC to start negotiations and to express once again its wish to establish a Customs Union.( 4-5 March 1962)
30 April 1962	Norway applied to the EEC for full membership.
14 January 1963	French President, General de Gaulle, expressed his suspicion about Britain’s political will to join the community. The negotiations with candidates were suspended.

9 May 1963	The EEC Council decided to grant a financial aid amounting to 175 million European Currency Unit (ECU) to Turkey for a period between 1964-1969 .
20 July 1963	The Yaoundé Convention was signed between the Community and 18 African ccountries.
12 September 1963	The Association Agreement aiming at strengthening mutual relations and establishing a customs union between Turkey and the EEC was signed.
24 September 1963	The EEC members reached an agreement on the merging of the executive bodies of the three bodies (ECSC, EURATOM and EEC).
1 June 1964	The Yaoundé Convention entered into force.
15 July 1964	With the Costa/Enel case, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Community law overruled and had precedence over national legislations.
1 December 1964	The Ankara Association Agreement between the EC and Turkey entered into force.
8 April 1965	The Merger Treaty, that merged the three bodies of the EEC, was signed.
1 July 1965	France had halted the negotiations aimed at financing the Common Agricultural Policy and recalled its Permanent Representative. This led to a crisis, known as the “empty chair crisis”. For the time being, the French Delegation will not take part in Council or Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) meetings.
29 January 1966	As a response to the empty chair crisis, the Luxembourg Compromise was reached. Its aim was to resolve the existing stalemate by stating that when a decision was subjected to qualified majority voting, the Commission would postpone a decision when that decision was conceived by a Member State as a threat to its vital interests.
16 May 1966	The first Turkey- EEC Joint Parliamentary Committee was gathered in Brussels.
11 May 1967	UK resubmitted its application for a membership to the European Community, which later was followed by Ireland, Denmark and Norway. French President Charles De Gaulle was still reluctant about the membership of the UK.
1 July 1968	Customs duties between Member States on industrial goods were abolished.
29 July 1969	The Second Yaoundé Convention was signed.
1 December 1969	A change in the French Presidency from Charles de Gaulle to Georges Pompidou opened the way for the UK entry to the EC and in the Hague Summit, the EC leaders decided to move further on the European integration and initiated the negotiations with UK, Ireland, Norway and Denmark. (1-2 December 1969)

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