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7. If a majority of the members of the Advisory 7 and 8: Deleted. 
Committee opposes the draft Decision under Article 3 
(1), the Commission shall not adopt a decision until a 
period of 20 days has elapsed from the date on which 
the Advisory Committee was consulted. 
8. If, within the period laid down in the preceding 
paragraph, a Member State raises in the Council an 
objective which in its opinion should be considered as 
having priority, within the meaning of Article 1 (3), the 
Council shall meet within 30 days of the date of the 
request made by the Member State concerned. In that 
case the Commission shall take no decision until after 
the Council meeting, and shall take account of the policy 
guidelines which emerged in the course of the Council's 
deliberations. 
Amended proposal for a Council Regulation laying down detailed rules for the application of 
Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty to maritime transport (') 
COM(86) 676 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of 
the EEC Treaty on 2 December 1986) 
(86/C 324/06) 
The proposal submitted to the Council on 16 October 1981 is hereby amended as follows: 
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Article 14 Article 14 
Liaison with the authorities of the Member States Liaison with the authorities of the Member States 
1. The Commission shall carry out the procedures 1 to 4: Unchanged 
provided for in this Regulation in close and constant 
liaison with the competent authorities of the Member 
States; these authorities shall have the right to express 
their views on such procedures. 
2. The Commission shall immediately forward to the 
competent authorities of the Member States copies of the 
complaints and applications, and of the most important 
documents sent to it or which it sends out in the course 
of such procedures. 
3. The Advisory Committee on Restrictive Practices 
and Monopolies in the Transport Industry established 
shall be consulted prior to the taking of any decision 
following upon a procedure under Article 9 or of any 
decision under the second subparagraph of Article 11 
(3), or under the second subparagraph of paragraph 4 of 
the same Article. The Advisory Committee shall also be 
consulted prior to adoption of the implementing 
provisions provided for in Article 27. 
O OJ No C 282, 5. 11. 1981, p. 4. 
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4. The Advisory Committee shall be composed of 
officials competent in the matter of restrictive practices 
and monopolies in maritime transport. Each Member 
State shall appoint two officials to represent it, each of 
whom, if prevented from attending, may be replaced by 
some other official. 
5. Consultation shall take place at a joint meeting 
convened by the Commission; such meeting shall be held 
not earlier than 14 days after dispatch of the notice 
convening it. This notice shall, in respect of each case to 
be examined, be accompanied by a summary of the case 
together with an indication of the most important 
documents, and a preliminary draft decision. 5. Consultation shall take place at a meeting convened 
at the invitation of the Commission. A summary of the 
facts, together with the most important documents and a 
preliminary draft of the decision to be taken, shall be 
sent with the invitation. When seeking the opinion of the 
Advisory Committee, the Commission may set a time 
limit within which such opinion shall be given. 
6. The Advisory Committee may deliver an opinion 
notwithstanding that some of its members or their 
alternates are not present. A report of the outcome of 
the consultative proceedings shall be annexed to the 
draft decision. It shall not be made public. 6. The Advisory Committee shall not vote on the 
outcome of its deliberations. However, any of its 
members may ask for his opinion to be recorded in the 
minutes, which shall be annexed to the draft decision but 
shall not be published. 
Article 15 
Consideration by the Council of questions of principle 
concerning the common transport policy raised in specific 
cases Article 15 
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1. The Commission shall not give a decision in respect 
of which consultation as laid down in Article 14 is 
compulsory until after the expiry of 20 days from the 
date on which the Advisory Committee has delivered its 
opinion. 
2. Before expiry of the period specified in paragraph 
1, any Member State may request that the Council be 
convened to examine with the Commission any question 
of principle concerning the common transport policy 
which such Member State considers to be involved in a 
particular case. 
The Council shall meet within 30 days from the request 
by the Member State concerned for the sole purpose of 
considering such questions of principle. 
The Commission shall not take its decision until after the 
Council meeting. 
3. Further, the Council may at any time, at the 
request of a Member State or of the Commission, 
consider general questions raised by the implementation 
of the competition policy in the sea transport sector. 
4. In all cases where the Council is asked to meet to 
consider, under paragraph 2, questions of principle or, 
under paragraph 3, general questions, the Commission 
shall, for the purposes of this Regulation, take into 
account the policy guidelines which emerge from that 
meeting.