Chambre Syndicale de La Sidérurgie Française v. The High Authority.

Abstract

Disputes — International courts — Court of European Coal and Steel Community — Parties — Capacity to appear before Court — Associations of producers of iron or steel — European Coal and Steel Community Treaty, 1951, Articles 53, 48 and 80.Disputes — International courts — Court of European Coal and Steel Community — Costs — Apportionment of.International organization — European Coal and Steel Community — Interpretation of Treaty establishing — Articles setting out fundamental aims of Treaty to be read as a whole — Power of international organization to give predominance to certain of these aims — Interpretation of fundamental aims in light of subseuqent provision of Treaty — Effect of failure to comply with fundamental aims — Whether a détournement de pouvoir — Dominant purpose of Treaty — Meaning of concept of “common interest” in Article 3.