Table detailing the departments of the High Authority (1952-1967).

In his editorial on 4 March 1964, Emanuele Gazzo, Chief Editor of the Europe daily bulletin, analyses the subject of collegiality in decision-making at the EEC Commission, the EAEC Commission and the ECSC High Authority ahead of the merger of the three institutions into a single Commission of the European Communities.

Organisation chart of the ECSC High Authority (situation in June 1967).

As Franco Maria Malfatti announces his early retirement from his post as President of the Commission of the European Communities for 22 March 1972, the German newspaper Die Zeit stresses, on 10 March 1972, the importance of the Commission President’s personal commitment if the institution is to maintain its role as political motor for European integration and not become a mere administrative service.

List of the Directorates-General and Services of the European Commission.

The mandate and membership of the Standing Commissioners' Groups, established early in the mandate of the Commission which took up office in September 1999.

Responsibilities of the Members of the Commission presided over by Romano Prodi.

Group photo of the 25 Members of the European Commission presided by José Manuel Durão Barroso, taken on 2 February 2005 in Brussels. In the front row, from left to right: Joaquín Almunia, Louis Michel, Jacques Barrot, Franco Frattini, Danuta Hübner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Margot Wallström, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Günter Verheugen, Siim Kallas, Olli Rehn and Viviane Reding. In the second row, from left to right: Joe Borg, Markos Kyprianou, László Kovács, Janez Potocnik, Marianne Fischer Boel, Andris Piebalgs, Peter Mandelson, Dalia Grybauskaite, Neelie Kroes, Charlie McCreevy, Ján Figel’, Vladimír Špidla and Stavros Dimas.

In this interview, Jacques Santer, former President of the European Commission, outlines the criteria, in particular the political criteria, which, in 1994, guided the selection of Commissioners and the allocation of portfolios.

In this interview, Jacques Santer, former President of the European Commission, outlines the main difficulties encountered in 1994 in the selection of Commissioners and in the allocation of their respective responsibilities.

Seated from left to right during a meeting held in Luxembourg on 13 January 1958: Walter Hallstein, President of the EEC Commission; Paul Finet, President of the ECSC High Authority; and Louis Armand, President of the Euratom Commission.

Chronological list of the Presidents of the European Commission (the ECSC High Authority, the EEC Commission, the EAEC Commission, and the Commission of the European Communities).

Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 10 August 1952 to 3 June 1955.

René Mayer, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 3 June 1955 to 13 January 1958.

On 13 January 1958, the Frenchman René Mayer transfers power to the Belgian Paul Finet as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Paul Finet, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 13 January 1958 to 14 September 1959.

Dino Del Bo, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 23 October 1963 to 6 July 1967.

Walter Hallstein, President of the Commission of the European Economic Community from 10 January 1958 to 6 July 1967.

Louis Armand, President of the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community from 10 January 1958 to 14 January 1959.

Jean Rey, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1 June 1967 to 30 June 1970.

Franco Maria Malfatti, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1 July 1970 to 21 March 1972.

On 14 March 1972, in Strasbourg, Franco Maria Malfatti, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1 July 1970 to 21 March 1972, explains to the European Parliament the reasons for his resignation and the circumstances surrounding his decision.

Sicco Mansholt, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 22 March 1972 to 5 January 1973.

On 6 January 1973, the President of the Commission, Sicco Mansholt, transfers power to his successor, François Xavier Ortoli, who remained in office until 5 January 1977.

François Xavier Ortoli, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 6 January 1973 to 5 January 1977.

Roy Jenkins, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1977 to 1981.

Issues of Community concern in 1977, as seen by a President of the Commission. During an interview conducted by the magazine Vision, Roy Jenkins broaches different subjects, including foreign policy, the question of the enlargement of the Community, the CAP, and election to the European Parliament by universal suffrage.

Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 6 January 1981 to 5 January 1985.

Interview with Gaston Thorn, conducted by the monthly publication 30 Jours d’Europe in January 1981, upon his taking up office as President of the European Commission. The Luxembourger talks about his life and career, while giving his point of view on the difficulties and challenges faced by the various Community institutions, in particular the Commission.

Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 6 January 1985 to 22 January 1995.

Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission from 23 January 1995 to 15 September 1999.

Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission from 16 September 1999 to 21 November 2004.

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission from 22 November 2004 to 31 October 2014.

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission since 1 November 2014.