EN Official Journal of the European Union L 245/9

DECISION No 2/2014 OF THE ACP-EU COMMITTEE OF AMBASSADORS

of 5 August 2014

appointing the members of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE)

(2014/534/EU)

THE ACP-EU COMMITTEE OF AMBASSADORS,

Having regard to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (1), as first amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (2) and as amended for the second time in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010 (3), and in particular Article 2(6) of Annex III thereof,

Having regard to Decision No 8/2005 of the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors of 20 July 2005 on the Statutes and rules of procedure of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (4) (CDE), and in particular Article 9(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Article 9 of the Statutes and rules of procedure of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE), adopted by Decision No 8/2005 of the ACP EC Committee of Ambassadors, provides that the Committee of Ambassadors shall appoint the members of the Executive Board, for a maximum period of five years.

(2) The term of office of the three EU members of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise, appointed by Decision No 3/2013 of the ACP EU Committee of Ambassadors (5), which was extended by Decision No 1/2014 of the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors (6), will expire on 6 September 2014,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Without prejudice to any subsequent decisions that the Committee might have to take under its prerogatives, the following are hereby appointed members of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise:

— Mr Jacek ADAMSKI

— Mr Martin BENKO

— Ms Nicole BOLLEN

— Mr John Atkins ARUHURI

— Ms Maria MACHAILO-ELLIS

— Mr Félix MOUKO

whose term of office expires on 6 September 2018, or at the time of closure of the Centre, whichever is earlier.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption. It may be revised at any time depending on the situation of the Centre.

Done at Brussels, 5 August 2014. By the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors The Chairman D. B. KAMALA

(1) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3.

(2) Agreement amending the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 27).

(3) Agreement amending for the second time the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, as first amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (OJ L 287, 4.11.2010, p. 3).

(4) OJ L 66, 8.3.2006, p. 16.

(5) Decision No 3/2013 of the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors of 30 July 2013 appointing the members of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE) (OJ L 263, 5.10.2013, p. 18).

(6) Decision No 1/2014 of the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors of 7 February 2014 appointing the members of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE) (OJ L 67, 7.3.2014, p. 7).