On 24 June 1953, at the end of the Conference of the Foreign Ministers of the Six held in Baden-Baden, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the ad hoc Assembly, and Heinrich von Brentano, Chairman of the Constitutional Affairs Committee, give Alcide de Gasperi, President of the Special Council of Ministers of the ECSC, a progress report on the work being undertaken in preparation for the planned European Political Community (EPC).