CELEX: 32007D0616(01)
Language: en
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 7 June 2007 appointing 27 members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency

16.6.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 134/6
            
         
      COUNCIL DECISION
   
   of 7 June 2007
   appointing 27 members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency
   (2007/C 134/04)
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Article 79 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency (1),
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Article 79 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 provides that the Council should appoint as Members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency one representative from each Member State.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The Members of the Management Board should be appointed on the basis of their relevant experience and expertise in the field of chemical safety or the regulation of chemicals whilst also ensuring that relevant expertise is available amongst the board members in the fields of general, financial and legal matters.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Continuity in the functioning of the Management Board should be ensured. To this end, the Members appointed on the first occasion should not terminate their term of office simultaneously. Therefore, twelve of the members should be appointed for a period lasting until 31 May 2013, and the other members should be appointed for a period lasting until 31 May 2011.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               The Council has received nominations from all the Member States,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   The following persons shall be appointed members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency for the period from 1 June 2007 to 31 May 2013 (name, nationality, date of birth):
   
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               Mr Karel BLÁHA, Czech, 20 December 1953
            
         
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               Ms Ana FRESNO RUIZ, Spanish, 31 January 1952
            
         
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               Ms Odile GAUTHIER, French, 24 July 1962
            
         
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               Mr Martin LYNCH, Irish, 13 August 1946
            
         
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               Mr Antonello LAPALORCIA, Italian, 13 June 1952
            
         
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               Mr Claude GEIMER, Luxembourgish, 26 July 1951
            
         
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               Dr Zoltán ADAMIS, Hungarian, 19 October 1937
            
         
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               Dr Arnoldus Wilhelmus VAN DER WIELEN, Dutch, 26 June 1945
            
         
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               Dr Thomas JAKL, Austrian, 13 June 1965
            
         
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               Dr Marta CIRAJ, Slovenian, 12 February 1956
            
         
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               Mr Jukka MALM, Finnish, 26 April 1960
            
         
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               Ms Ethel FORSBERG, Swedish, 5 April 1956
            
         Article 2
   The following persons shall be appointed members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency for the period from 1 June 2007 to 31 May 2011 (name, nationality, date of birth):
   
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               Mr Maarten ROGGEMAN, Belgian, 18 December 1979
            
         
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               Ms Ekaterina Spasova GECHEVA-ZAHARIEVA, Bulgarian, 8 August 1975
            
         
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               Mr Helge ANDREASEN, Danish, 1 October 1948
            
         
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               Mr Alexander NIES, German, 27 January 1956
            
         
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               Ms Maria ALAJÕE, Estonian, 3 November 1969
            
         
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               Ms Maria-Miranda XEPAPADAKI-TOMARA, Greek, 12 November 1947
            
         
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               Mr Leandros NICOLAIDES, Cypriot, 11 February 1950
            
         
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               Ms Ilze KIRSTUKA, Latvian, 30 July 1950
            
         
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               Ms Aurelija BAJORAITIENĖ, Lithuanian, 23 December 1964
            
         
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               Mr Francis E FARRUGIA, Maltese, 18 December 1945
            
         
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               Ms Katarzyna KITAJEWSKA, Polish, 13 February 1952
            
         
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               Mr António Nuno FERNANDES GONÇALVES HENRIQUES, Portuguese, 30 July 1951
            
         
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               Ms Rodica MOROHOI, Romanian, 9 July 1971
            
         
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               Ms Edita NOVÁKOVÁ, Slovak, 8 July 1956
            
         
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               Dr John ROBERTS, British, 29 June 1951
            
         Article 3
   This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   
   
      Done at Luxembourg, 7 June 2007.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         M. GLOS
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1. Corrected by OJ L 136, 29.5.2007, p. 3.