CELEX: 51996PC0726
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the replacement of members of the European Social Fund Committee

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                Brussels, 23.12.1996
                                COM(96) 726 final
                 Proposal for a
            COUNCIL DECISION
        on the replacement of members
   of the European Social Fund Committee
        (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Subject:       Replacement of members of the European Social Fund Committee
               for the period up to 22 October 1998
 1.    Article 17 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 of 24 June 1988, as most
       recently amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 3193/94 of 19 December 1994,
       on the tasks of the Structural Funds and their effectiveness and on coordination
      of their activities between themselves and with the operations of the European
      Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments, states that the
      Commission shall be assisted in respect of Objectives 3 and 4 by a Committee
      pursuant to Article 124 of the Treaty.
2.    The provisions relating to the organisation and tasks of this Committee are laid
      down in the implementing regulations, principally in Article 28 of Council
      Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No
      3193/94 of 19 December 1994, concerning coordination of the activities of the
      different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the
      European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments.
3.    The said Article provides that the Committee shall be composed of two
      government representatives, two representatives of the workers' organisations and
      two representatives of the employers' organisations from each Member State. The
      members and alternates are appointed by the Council, acting on a proposal from
      the Commission, for a period of three years.
4.    The Council decided, on 23 October 1995, to appoint the members and alternate
      members of the European Social Fund Committee, on a proposal from the
      Commission, for the period from 23 October 1995 to 22 October 1998.
5.    Following the resignation of three members, the Commission is presenting to the
      Council this proposal for a Decision replacing the members for the period up to
      22 October 1998.
 ---pagebreak---                                           COUNCIL DECISION
                                               of
                                     on the replacement of members
                                of the European Social Fund Committee
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 of 19 December 1988 laying down
 provisions for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards coordination of the
activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the
 European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments (1), and in particular
Article 28, third paragraph, thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, in a Decision of
23 October 1995 (2) appointed the members and alternate nmembers of the European Social
Fund Committee for the period ending on 22 October 1998;
Whereas one member's seat filled by a government representative, one filled by an employers'
representative and one filled by a workers' representative have fallen vacant;
Whereas members of the European Social Fund Committee should be appointed to fill the
vacant seats,
o
OJ No L 374, 31.12.1988, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3193/94 (OJ
No L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 11).
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OJ Ne C 2f6, 10 11.1995, p. 7.
                                                3
 ---pagebreak---  HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                               Article 1
The following are hereby appointed members of the European Social Fund Committee for the
remainder of their current term of office, which runs until 22 October 1998:
1)   Government representatives
     frfomfrer                                                  in place of
     Sweden : Mr Erling JACOBSSON                               Ms Agneta SPETZ
2)   Employers' representatives
     Member                                                     in place of
     Portugal : Mr Joao Artur MACIEL de SOVERAL                 Mr José FRIAS GOMES
3)   Workers' representatives
     Member                                                     in place of
     Spain: Mr. Luciano GONZALES GARCIA                         Ms Inès AYALA SENDER
                                              Article 2
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Done at Brussels,
                                                         For the Council
                                                          The President
                                               H
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