CELEX: 51996PC0139
Language: en
Date: 1996-03-27
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION replacing members and alternate members of the European Social Fund Committee

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
-à- it
                                     Brussels, 27 03 1996
                                     COM(%) IV) final
       PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
        replacing members and alternate members
         of the European Social Fund Committee
              (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Subject:      Replacement of members and alternate 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 (EEC) 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 (EEC) 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 a member and an alternate member, the Commission
      is presenting to the Council this proposal for a Decision replacing those members
      for the period up to 22 October 1998.
 ---pagebreak---                       PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
                       replacing members and alternate members
                         of the European Social Fund Committee
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Council, on 23 October 1995, acting on a proposal from the Commission,
decided to appoint the members and alternate members of the European Social Fund
Committee1 for the period up to 22 October 1998;
Whereas two members' seats (government representatives) have become vacant following
the resignations of Mrs Maria Teresa Bengala and Mr Raul Carlos (Portugal);
Whereas one alternate member's seat (government representative) has become vacant
following the resignation of Mr Mario Ferras de Oliveira (Portugal);
Whereas, therefore, it is necessary to amend the said Decision,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                         Article 1
The Decision of 23 October 1995 is amended as follows:
1.      In Article 1, I a)
-        the member representing the Portuguese government, Mrs Maria Teresa Bengala,
        is replaced by Mrs Maria Candida Soares;
-        the member representing the Portuguese government, Mr Raul Carlos, is replaced
        by Mr Rafael Prata.
2.      In Article 1,1 b), the alternate member representing the Portuguese government,
        Mr Mario Ferras de Oliveira, is replaced by Mr Mario Caldeira Diaz.
                                         Article 2
The appointments referred to in Article 1 shall be published, for information, in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.
Done at Brussels                                            For the Council
                                                            The President
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        OJ No C 296, 10.11.1995.
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