On 12 April 1972, the Commission of the EC held its first meeting under the Presidency of Sicco Mansholt. Members who attended the meeting were Raymond Barre, Vice-President of the CEC in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs and the Statistical Office, Wilhelm Haferkamp, Vice-President of the CEC in charge of Internal Market and Approximation of Legislation, Energy, Supply Agency, Safeguards and Controls, Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza, Vice-President of the CEC in charge of Agriculture, Jean-François Deniau, Member of the CEC in charge of Coordination of Enlargement Negotiation and Development Aid, Ralf Dahrendorf, Member of the CEC in charge of External Relations and External Trade, Albert Coppé, Member of the CEC in charge of Social Affairs, Transport, Personnel and Administration, Credit and Investment, Budgets and Financial Control, Albert Borschette, Member of the CEC in charge of Competition, Regional Policy, Press and Information and the Dissemination of Information, and Altiero Spinelli, Member of the CEC in charge of Industrial Affairs, General Research and Technology and the Joint Research Centre.