EN Official Journal of the European Union L 49/33

COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 February 2009

on the appointment of the members and advisors of the Scientific Committees and the Pool set up by Decision 2008/721/EC

(2009/146/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Commission Decision 2008/721/EC of 5 September 2008 setting up an advisory structure of Scientific Committees and experts in the field of consumer safety, public health and the environment and repealing Decision 2004/210/EC (1), and in particular Articles 3 and 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By Decision 2008/721/EC the Commission has set up three scientific committees, on consumer safety (SCCS), on health and environmental risks (SCHER) and on emerging and newly identified health risks (SCENIHR) and a pool of scientific advisors on risk assessment (hereinafter the Pool), in the field of consumer safety, public health and the environment.

(2) The SCCS, SCHER and SCENIHR shall each consist of a maximum of 17 members and the number of scientific advisors in the Pool at any time is decided by the Commission based on its need for scientific advice. In order to adequately cover the wide range of scientific issues on which it is planned to consult the scientific committees during their term of office, it is appropriate to fix at 17 the number of members of each scientific committee and to fix at 189 the number of scientific advisors of the Pool.

(3) In accordance with Articles 3(4) and 4(2) of Decision 2008/721/EC a call for expression of interest was published which also set the selection criteria and the evaluation procedure, which led to lists of suitable candidates from which the Commission appoints the members of the scientific committees and the scientific advisors of the Pool.

(4) In accordance with Article 3(2) of Decision 2008/721/EC, the selection of the members of the Committees has been made on the basis of their expertise and consistent with this a geographical distribution that reflects the diversity of scientific problems and approaches, notably in Europe, and, in accordance with Article 4(1) of the same Decision, the selection of the advisors has been made taking into account the objective to cover the widest possible range of disciplines,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

The number of members of each of the three scientific committees set up by Decision 2008/721/EC is fixed at 17. The experts listed in Annex I to this Decision are appointed as members of those Committees.

The number of scientific advisors in the Pool is fixed at 189 and the experts listed in Annex II to this Decision are appointed as scientific advisors on risk assessment to the Pool set up by Decision 2008/721/EC.

Done at Brussels, 19 February 2009. For the Commission Androulla VASSILIOU Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 241, 10.9.2008, p. 21.

ANNEX I List of experts appointed as members of the scientific committees List in alphabetical order of the experts appointed as members of the scientific committees set up by Decision 2008/721/EC. Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety Last name First name Institute or organisation of affiliation Angerer Jürgen Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Erlagen, Germany Bernauer Ulrike Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany Chambers Claire Chambers Toxicological Consulting, Wicklow, Ireland Chaudhry Mohammad Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom Degen Gisela Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany Eisenbrand Gerhard University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Galli Corrado University of Milan, Milan, Italy Platzek Thomas Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany Rastogi Suresh Retired Rogiers Vera Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Rousselle Christophe French Agency for Environmental and Occupationnal Health Safety (Afsset), Maisons-Alfort, France Sanner Tore Retired Savolainen Kai Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Van Engelen Jacqueline National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands Vinardell Maria University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Waring Rosemary University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, United Kingdom White Ian Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Hospitals, London, United Kingdom

Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks Last name First name Institute or organisation of affiliation Ackermann-Liebrich Ursula Swiss School of Public Health, Zürich, Switzerland Autrup Herman University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Bard Denis École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP), Rennes, France Calow Peter Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark Canna-Michaelidou Stella State General Laboratory, Nicosia, Cyprus Davison John French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Paris, France Dekant Wolfgang University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany De Voogt Pim University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gard Arielle University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France Greim Helmut Retired Hirvonen Ari Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Janssen Colin Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Linders Jan National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands Peterlin Borut University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Tarazona Jose Spanish National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology, Madrid, Spain Testai Emanuela Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy Vighi Marco University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks Last name First name Institute or organisation of affiliation Auvinen Anssi University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Bridges James Retired Dawson Kenneth University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland De Jong Wim National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands Hartemann Philippe Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France Hoet Peter Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Jung Thomas Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland Mattsson Mats-Olof Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden Norppa Hannu Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Pagès Jean-Marie Inserm and Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France Proykova Ana University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria Rodríguez-Farré Eduardo Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Schulze-Osthoff Klaus University Clinics Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Schüz Joachim Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark Stahl Dorothea Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria Thomsen Mogens Retired Vermeire Theodorus National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands