following the foundation of the european economic community (eec) and the european atomic energy community (euratom) in 1957 and the establishment of the school in luxembourg, other european schools were set up in brussels and then in mol, belgium in 1958, in varese, italy in 1960, karlsruhe, germany in 1962, in bergen, the netherlands in 1963, and a second school in brussels in 1974. in order to facilitate the setting-up of those new schools and to provide them with a legal basis, the governments of the member states signed on 13 april 1962 in luxembourg a protocol on the setting-up of european schools with reference to the 1957 statute of the european school.