CELEX: 32005D0159
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-17 00:00:00
Title: 2005/159/EC: Council Decision of 17 February 2005 appointing six Belgian members and eight Belgian alternate members of the Committee of the Regions

25.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 52/40
            
         
      COUNCIL DECISION
   
   of 17 February 2005
   appointing six Belgian members and eight Belgian alternate members of the Committee of the Regions
   (2005/159/EC)
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 263 thereof,
   Having regard to the proposal from the Belgian Government,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               On 22 January 2002 the Council adopted Decision 2002/60/EC (1) appointing the members and alternate members of the Committee of the Regions.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               One seat as a member and one seat as an alternate member of the Committee of the Regions have become vacant following the resignation of Mr Frans RAMON, member, notified to the Council on 8 September 2004 and of Mr Jos BEX, alternate member, notified to the Council on 3 February 2005, and five seats as members and seven seats as alternate members of the Committee of the Regions have become vacant following the expiry of the mandates of Mr Paul VAN GREMBERGEN (BE), Mr Bart SOMERS (BE), Mr Stefaan PLATTEAU (BE), Mr Xavier DESGAIN (BE) and Mr Hervé HASQUIN (BE), members, and of Mr Jacques TIMMERMANS (BE), Mr André DENYS, Ms Josée VERCAMMEN, Mr Serge KUBLA, Mr Rudy DEMOTTE, Mr Jean-Marc NOLLET and Mr Bernd GENTGES, alternate members, notified to the Council on 24 January 2005,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Sole Article
   The following are hereby appointed to the Committee of the Regions:
   
               a)
            
            
               as members:
               
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Yves LETERME
                           Minister-President van de Vlaamse Regering en Vlaams Minister van Institutionele Hervormingen, Landbouw, Zeevisserij en Plattelandsbeleid
                           to replace Mr Frans RAMON
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Bart SOMERS
                           Vlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger
                           (on the basis of his new mandate as a member of the Flemish Parliament)
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Ms Fientje MOERMAN
                           Vice-Minister-President van de Vlaamse Regering en Vlaams Minister van Economie, Ondernemen, Wetenschap, Innovatie en Buitenlandse Handel
                           to replace Mr Stefaan PLATTEAU
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Geert BOURGEOIS
                           Vlaams Minister van Bestuurzaken, Buitenlands Beleid, Media en Tourisme
                           to replace Mr Paul VAN GREMBERGEN
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Michel LEBRUN
                           Député wallon
                           to replace Mr Xavier DESGAIN
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Jean-François ISTASSE
                           Président du Parlement de la Communauté française
                           to replace Mr Hervé HASQUIN;
                        
                     
         
               b)
            
            
               as alternate members:
               
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Johan SAUWENS
                           Vlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger
                           to replace Mr André DENYS
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Bart CARON
                           Vlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger
                           to replace Mr Jacques TIMMERMANS
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Stefaan PLATTEAU
                           Burgemeester,
                           to replace Ms Josée VERCAMMEN
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Ms Marie-Dominique SIMONET
                           Ministre de la Recherche, des Technologies nouvelles et des relations extérieures du Gouvernement wallon
                           to replace Mr Serge KUBLA
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Maurice BAYENET
                           Député au Parlement de la Communauté française
                           to replace Mr Jean-Marc NOLLET
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Béa DIALLO
                           Député au Parlement de la Communauté française
                           to replace Mr Rudy DEMOTTE
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Claude DESAMA
                           Bourgmestre de Verviers
                           to replace Mr Bernd GENTGES
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Mr Jan ROEGIERS
                           Vlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger
                           to replace Mr Jos BEX
                        
                     
         for the remainder of their term of office, which runs until 25 January 2006.
   
      Done at Brussels, 17 February 2005.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         J.-C. JUNCKER
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 24, 26.1.2002, p. 38.