CELEX: 51996PC0043
Language: en
Date: 1996-02-02
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION replacing members and alternate members of the european social fund committee

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                       Brussels, 02.02.1996
                                       COM(96) 43 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 new 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 one member's seat (employers' representative) has become vacant following the
resignation of Mr G. Wetterberg (Sweden);
Whereas one alternate member's seat (employers' representative) has become vacant
following the resignation of Mr J. R. Hagedorn (Germany);
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, II a), the member representing Swedish employers, Mr G.
        Wetterberg, is replaced by Mr Johan Carlstrôm.
2.      In Article 1, II b), the alternate member representing German employers, Mr J.
        R. Hagedorn, is replaced by Mr H. Koellmann.
                                           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
        OJNoC296, 10.11 1995.
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