CELEX: 52011SC1507
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-07
Title: Draft DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE COMMISSION, THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE COURT OF AUDITORS, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS amending Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom on the organisation and operation of the Publications Office of the European Union

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                  Brussels, 7.12.2011
                                                  SEC(2011) 1507 final
                                        Draft
      DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE
   COMMISSION, THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE
      COURT OF AUDITORS, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
           COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
   amending Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom on the organisation and operation of the
                      Publications Office of the European Union
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      DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE
    COMMISSION, THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE
      COURT OF AUDITORS, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
             COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
   amending Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom on the organisation and operation of the
                        Publications Office of the European Union
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,
THE COUNCIL,
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
THE COURT OF AUDITORS,
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE,
THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
Whereas:
(1)   It is necessary to revise Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom of the European Parliament,
      the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the
      European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 26
      June 2009 on the organisation and operation of the Publications Office of the
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 ---pagebreak---        European Union1 in order to adapt it to the provisions of the Treaties as amended by
       the Treaty of Lisbon and, in particular, to add the European Council as a signatory
       institution.
(2)    The Management Committee of the Publications Office has agreed, at its meeting on 2
       July 2010, that the European Council become a signatory institution and, on 14 April
       2011, that Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom should therefore be amended,
HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
                                             Article 1
Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom is amended as follows:
1.       The title shall be replaced by ‘Decision of the European Parliament, the European
         Council, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union,
         the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee and the
         Committee of the Regions on the organisation and operation of the Publications
         Office of the European Union’.
2.       The list of enacting institutions and bodies shall be replaced by the following:
                ‘THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,
                THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL,
                THE COUNCIL,
                THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
                THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
                THE COURT OF AUDITORS,
                THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE,
                THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS’.
3.       In Article 1(1) the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:
                ‘1. The task of the Publications Office of the European Union (hereinafter the
                Office), which is an interinstitutional office, shall be to publish the publications
                of the institutions of the European Union and the European Atomic Energy
                Community under optimum conditions.’
4.       Article 4 paragraph 6 shall be replaced by the following:
                ‘6. The institutions may conclude service agreements with the Office in order
                to define the methods of their cooperation. The European External Action
                Service may also cooperate with the Office and, for this purpose, conclude a
                service agreement.’
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       OJ L 168, 30.06.2009, p. 41.
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 ---pagebreak--- 5.      Article 6 paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:
               ‘1. A Management Committee shall be established, within which all the
               signatory institutions are represented. The Management Committee shall be
               made up of the Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the
               Secretaries-General of the other institutions or their representatives. The
               European Central Bank shall take part in the work of the Management
               Committee as an observer. The European Central Bank shall be represented by
               the Secretary to its Executive Board or by their appointed substitute.’
6.      The list of signatories shall be replaced by the following:
               ‘For the European Parliament,
               For the European Council,
               For the Council,
               For the European Commission,
               For the Court of Justice of the European Union,
               For the Court of Auditors,
               For the European Economic and Social Committee,
               For the Committee of the Regions’
                                            Article 2
This Decision shall take effect on the day following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Union.
Done at …, […]
                                              For the European Parliament
                                               The President
                                              For the Council
                                               The President
                                              […]
                                              For the Commission
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 ---pagebreak---  The President
[…]
For the Court of Justice of the European Union
 The President
[…]
For the Court of Auditors
 The President
[…]
 For the European        Economic    and   Social
Committee
 The President
[…]
For the Committee of the Regions
 The President
[…]
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