2001/535/EC: Commission Decision of 6 July 2001 amending Decision 94/442/EC setting up a conciliation procedure in the context of the clearance of the accounts of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) Guarantee Section (notified under document number C(2001) 1756)
Date: 2001-07-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU body, closing of accounts, conciliation procedure (part of ordinary legislative procedure)

17.7.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 193/25

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 July 2001

amending Decision 94/442/EC setting up a conciliation procedure in the context of the clearance of
the accounts of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) Guarantee
Section

(notified under document number C(2001) 1756)

(2001/535/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the financing of
the common agricultural
policy (1), and in particular Article 7(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

In order to ensure that
the Conciliation Body can
continue to function while its members are gradually
replaced, members' terms of office should be renewable
for a shorter term after the initial term of three years.
The special rules to apply to the term of office of the
Chariman of the Body should be made clearer. To that
end, Commission Decision 94/442/EC of 1 July 1994
setting up a conciliation procedure in the context of the
clearance of the accounts of the European Agricultural
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) Guarantee
Section (2),
amended by Decision 2000/
649/EC (3), should be adopted.

last

as

(2)

The EAGGF Committee has delivered a favourable
opinion,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 94/442/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1. The second and third subparagraphs of Article 3(2) are

replaced by the following:

‘The Chairman and the members shall be appointed by the
Commission for an initial term of office of three years after
the EAGGF Committee has been consulted in accordance
with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999. Their
terms of office may be renewed for a year at a time only,
and the Committee must be informed. However, where the

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 182, 16.7.1994, p. 45.
(3) OJ L 272, 25.10.2000, p. 41.

Chairman to be appointed is already a member of the Body,
his/her initial term of office as Chariman shall be three
years.

after

Furthermore,
the EAGGF Committee has been
consulted as before in accordance with Article 14(1)(a) of
Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999,
the Commission shall
appoint substitute members who meet the criteria laid down
in the first subparagraph and who shall be called on in the
order of the Commission's list.’

2. Article 3(3) shall be replaced by the following:

‘After his/her term of office has expired, the member or,
where applicable, the Chairman shall remain in office until
he/she is replaced or his/her term of office is renewed.’

3. The first subparagrpah of Article 3(4) is replaced by the

following:

‘Before the expiry of the three-year period, a member's term
of office may be terminted as a result of voluntary or
compulsory resignation, or death. In such cases the member
shall be replaced for the remainder of his/her term by the
first available substitute member. However, should the
Chariman resign or die, the member who is to perform the
Chariman's duties for the remainder of the latter's term of
office shall be appointed by the Commission after the
EAGGF Committee has been consulted in accordance with
Article 14(1) Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999.’

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 6 July 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission