The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) held an extraordinary session in Rome, November 5–9, 1957. It re-elected Mr. Hans Furler (Federal Republic of Germany, Christian Democrat) as President of the Assembly and chose the following as vicepresidents: Messrs. Jean Fohrmann (Luxembourg, Socialist), Roger Motz (Belgium, Liberal), Emilio Battista (Italy, Christian Democrat), Emile Vanrullen (France, Socialist), and W. Rip (Netherlands, Anti-Revolutionary). The Assembly discussed four major topics: safety in the mines, migration and free movement of workers, coordination of transport, and commercial policy in the Community. Four resolutions adopted by the Common Assembly on November 9 dealt with the following points in each of the four areas: need for preventive action, the solution of technical problems, and proposals made by the Conference convened to study safety in the mines; the study to be made by the High Authority of means of solving the housing crisis and of increasing vocational training, as well as of a plan for coordinating manpower movements between member countries; institution of a procedure of mutual consultation, delegation to the High Authority, in respect of coal and steel, of the same competence to be delegated to the European Commission, and close coordination and assembly in one place of European institutions; and the need to coordinate and harmonize European transport and the invitation to the Council of Ministers to take the report presented to the Assembly on this subject as the basis of a common policy.