Med henblik herpå besluttede de at pålægge et udvalg under ledelse af Kommissionens formand, Jacques Delors, »den opgave at undersøge og foreslå konkrete etaper hen imod denne uni on«.
To that end they decided to entrust to a committee, chaired by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, "the task of studying and proposing concrete stages leading towards this union".