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Article 13 is amended as follows: (a) paragraph 2a is replaced by the following: ‘2a. One representative of the national central banks of Iceland and Norway, and in the case of Liechtenstein, one representative of the Ministry of Finance, as well as one representative of the competent national supervisory authority of each of these EFTA Member States shall participate on the Advisory Technical Committee. The Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee may also invite, on their own initiative or on a proposal from one or more other members of the Advisory Technical Committee, a high-level representative of a designated authority nominated in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1092/2010 and/or a high-level representative of a national authority entrusted with the conduct of macroprudential policy as referred to in Article 6(2)(a) of that Regulation to participate in meetings of the Advisory Technical Committee where appropriate, and subject to compliance with confidentiality requirements. The Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee may also invite, on their own initiative or on a proposal from one or more other members of the Advisory Technical Committee, a high-level representative of relevant authorities from third countries in accordance with Article 9(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1092/2010, to participate in meetings of the Advisory Technical Committee where appropriate, and subject to compliance with confidentiality requirements.’; (b) paragraph 5 is replaced by the following: ‘5. The members of the Advisory Technical Committee shall elect the Vice-Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee. The election shall be held by secret ballot and by simple majority of the votes cast. Members of the Advisory Technical Committee and high-level officials of ESRB member institutions shall be eligible candidates. The representative of the Advisory Scientific Committee may not be elected Vice-Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee. The term of office of the Vice-Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee shall be three years and shall be renewable.’; (c) paragraph 7 is replaced by the following: ‘7. The Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee shall propose an agenda at least ten calendar days before the meeting, prepared in accordance with Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1092/2010, which shall be submitted to the Advisory Technical Committee for approval. Documents for agenda items shall be made available by the ESRB Secretariat to all members of the Advisory Technical Committee. When planning the work and preparing the meeting agendas of the Advisory Technical Committee the following requirements shall be taken into account: (a) participation by high level-representatives of relevant authorities from third countries pursuant to Article 13(2a) should only concern items of relevance to the Union, excluding any case where the situation of individual financial institutions or Member States may be discussed; (b) representatives of relevant authorities from EFTA Member States may be asked not to participate in meetings of the Advisory Technical Committee or in parts of such meetings that relate to specific agenda items, where the situation of individual Union financial institutions or Member States may be discussed. After receiving the provisional agenda each representative may, within three ECB working days, submit a request to the ESRB Secretariat for an agenda item to be discussed without the participation of those representatives who are participating pursuant to Article 13(2a) where the requirements referred to in points (a) and/or (b) of paragraph 7, as applicable, are not met. The identity of the requesting representative shall be kept anonymous.’;