Participation. The United States Delegate has full rights of participation in the work of the Agency. He has a full vote in the Assembly and, in voting on the budget of IARA, has a vote proportionate to the 28 percent share of the budget paid by the United States. RELATIONS WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IARA has no formal agreements with other international organizations nor does it at present have any informal or administrative relationships with other international bodies. BASIC TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS U.S. Department of State. Germany: Distribution of Reparation, Establishment of Inter-Allied Reparation Agency, Restitution of Monetary Gold, Agreement Between the United States and Other Governments. Opened for signature at Paris January 14, 1946. Entered into force January 24, 1946. Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1655. Pub. 2966. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1947. (61 Stat., pt. 3, 3157.) Protocol Between the United States and Other Governments apportioning shares Between India and Pakistan under the Agreement of January 14, 1946. Signed at Brussels March 15, 1948. Effective from January 24, 1946. Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1797. Pub. 3289. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1948. Protocol of the Proceedings of the Crimea Conference. Press release 239 of March 24, 1947. 9 pp. Protocol of the Proceedings of the Berlin Conference. Press release 238 of March 24, 1947. 16 pp. Inter-Allied Reparation Agency. Report of the Secretary General, 1946, 1947, and 1948. Concerning the Allied Commission on Reparations, see: International Agencies in Which the United States Participates. Pub. 2699. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1946, p. 141. International Authority for the Ruhr Düsseldorf, Germany ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT Representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands, meeting at London in the spring of 1948, drew up a set of principles on the control of the Ruhr which were issued as an annex to their communiqué of June 7, 1948. Agreeing that an international authority was required to carry out these principles, the six countries conducted further negotiations which led to the completion, on December 28, 1948, of a draft agreement for the establishment of the International Authority for the Ruhr. After being con 842727-50- -12 firmed at Washington by the Foreign Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France on April 8, 1949, the agreement was formally signed at London by representatives of the six powers on April 28, 1949.15 The first meeting of the Council of the Authority was held at London from May 20 to June 2, 1949, at which time it was determined that headquarters of the organization would be established at Düsseldorf, Germany. MEMBERSHIP Membership in the Authority is limited to the six signatory governments (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) and Germany. German participation is to be the responsibility of the occupation authorities in the Western zones until a German Government is established, after which time the German Government will participate. PURPOSES, POWERS, AND FUNCTIONS The purposes of the Authority are to insure that the resources of the Ruhr industrial area will be used solely in the interests of peace and to aid in a closer coordination of the economic life of those countries of Europe, including a democratic Germany, which cooperate for the common good. The powers of the Authority are such as to insure that these basic purposes can be carried out. The basic function of the Authority is to make a division of coal, coke, and steel from the Ruhr as between German consumption and export, in order to provide adequate access to supplies of these products by countries cooperating in the common economic good, at the same time taking into account the essential needs of Germany and existing international agreements. Other functions of the Authority are to prevent the German authorities from carrying out discriminatory measures; to protect foreign interests; and to obtain the information required to perform the above-mentioned functions through inspection and investigation. STRUCTURE The constituent organs of the Authority are the Council and a Secretariat. The Council, the main governing body, is composed of representatives of the signatory governments and Germany. The voting rights of the members of the Council are as follows: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, one vote each; France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany (occupation authorities until accession by the German Government), three votes each. 15 See Basic Texts and Publications, p. 172. The Council is to meet bimonthly and, in addition, as often as may be necessary. Meetings will be held at Düsseldorf. The chairmanship of the Council rotates every 6 months among the signatory governments. The secretariat, headed by an executive secretary appointed by the Council, is to have at the start four functional sections on (a) solid fuels; (b) steel; (c) trade practices and protection of foreign interests; (d) inspection and statistics; and, (e) an administrative section. The secretariat will perform duties assigned to it by the Council, including the keeping of minutes of meetings, the maintenance of a register of decisions, and the gathering and analysis of relevant data. The Executive Secretary is George Kaeckenbeeck. The official languages of the Authority are English and French. German is an additional working language. All documents are printed in English and French, with German texts also provided when necessary. FINANCES Budget. The Council, at its first meeting, held in May 1949, approved an interim budget of $140,000 for the period May 20 through September 30, 1949. The Council also approved the immediate establishment of a capital reserve fund of $60,000 to provide funds pending the payment of contributions by members. A budget of $630,000 to cover the organization's first financial year from May 20, 1949 through March 31, 1950 (its financial year thereafter to begin on April 1) was approved by the Council in August 1949. Members' Quotas. Expenditures of the Authority are financed entirely by contributions from members determined on the basis of their voting strength. UNITED STATES RELATIONS Authorization. The agreement providing for the establishment of the International Authority for the Ruhr was signed on April 28, 1949, by the representative of the United States, acting under the authority vested in the Executive to conduct the foreign affairs of the United States. Payments. The United States contribution to the budget covering the period May 20, 1949, to March 31, 1950, amounts to $126,000, or 20 percent of total assessments, and its share of the capital reserve fund is $12,000. These amounts are to be paid from funds appropriated to the Department of State. Agencies Chiefly Concerned. The United States agency primarily concerned with the Authority is the Department of State. Participation. The United States representative to the Authority has full participation rights and is entitled to cast three votes in the Council. RELATIONS WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Authority maintains close relationship with the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. BASIC TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS Department of State Bulletin. June 20, 1948, pp. 809-10. "Recommendation by the London Conference of Representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg on International Control of the Ruhr," issued June 7, 1948; January 9, 1949, pp, 46–52. "Establishing an International Authority for the Ruhr, December 28, 1948." Contains text of Agreement. Tripartite Boards of the Western Zones of Germany ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT Economic fusion of the American and British Zones of Germany was effected as of January 1, 1947, by an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom signed December 2, 194616 as a step toward achievement of the economic unity of Germany as a whole envisaged in the Potsdam Agreement of August 2, 1945. The agreement of 1946 was revised on December 17, 1947, and extended to March 31, 1949, and again to June 30 an dSeptember 30, 1949.16 The extensions were agreed upon in order to allow time for the completion of the arrangements which had been begun for the merger of the French Zone with the Bizonal Area. At the London Six-Power Conference, February-June 1948, discussions took place between the United States, the United Kingdom, and French Delegations on measures for coordinating economic policies and practices in the combined United States-United Kingdom Zone and the French Zone, and agreed recommendations were reached on the joint conduct and control of the external trade of the whole area.16 Meeting at Washington on April 8, 1949, the Foreign Ministers of the three Governments reached agreement on the control machinery for the Trizonal Area.16 As part of these arrangements, a number of tripartite boards or committees were functioning as of June 30, 1949. 16 See Basic Texts and Publications, p. 176. They are described individually below, following the paragraphs which relate to them as a group. On June 20, 1949, at Paris, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France signed an agreement for the establishment of an Allied High Commission to exercise tripartite authority in Germany." The authority and powers of the Commission are defined in the Occupation Statute, which is to come into force on the establishment of the Federal German Republic. Under the terms of the Statute, which places administrative responsibilities on the German Government, the Allied High Commission will exercise certain supervisory and “reserved" powers in lieu of the full powers formerly exercised by the military government. The High Commission will consist of an Allied Council, an Allied General Secretariat, and the following committees: Political Affairs, Foreign Trade and Exchange, Economics, Finance, Law, and Military Security, as well as a number of subordinate committees and groups. The High Commission is to be represented in each Land by a Land Commissioner, a national of the occupying power in whose zone the Land is situated. MEMBERSHIP The boards and committees of the Tripartite Boards are composed of representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. PURPOSES, POWERS, AND FUNCTIONS See the individual descriptions below. STRUCTURE See the individual descriptions below. FINANCES Each occupying power pays the salaries of its representatives on the boards and committees. Allocation of the other expenses of the boards and committees, unless covered in German budgets as part of the costs of occupation, is made on the basis of informal arrangements agreed upon by the responsible military authorities. UNITED STATES RELATIONS Authorization. United States participation is based on the abovementioned fusion agreement of 1946, with the extensions thereof, and on the measures taken for the merger of the French Zone with the Bizonal Area. 17 See Basic Texts and Publications, p. 176. |