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Dirk Pieter Spierenburg was a Dutch politician and diplomat. He was born on 4 February 1909 in RotterdamNetherlands and died on 27 August 2001. He was a member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, serving in the Monnet Authority from 1952 and was in charge of external relations. He later wrote the Spierenburg report on reform in 1979 of the European Commission which was only partly heeded.