CELEX: 32019D0529(03)
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-27 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 27 May 2019 appointing 15 members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency

29.5.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  C 185/4
               
            
         COUNCIL DECISION
         of 27 May 2019
         appointing 15 members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency
         (2019/C 185/03)
         THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
         Having regard to 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), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (1), and in particular Article 79 thereof,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     Article 79 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 provides that the Council is to appoint as members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (‘the Management Board’) one representative from each Member State.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     The members of the Management Board are to 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 members of the Management Board in the fields of general, financial and legal matters.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     The duration of the term of office is four years. It is possible to renew the term of office once.
                  
               
                     (4)
                  
                  
                     By its Decision of 7 June 2007 (2), the Council appointed 27 members of the Management Board.
                  
               
                     (5)
                  
                  
                     The members of the Management Board nominated by Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the United Kingdom, were all appointed for a period ending on 31 May 2019. Members of the Management Board from those Member States should therefore be nominated and appointed for a period from 1 June 2019 to 31 May 2023.
                  
               
                     (6)
                  
                  
                     The Council has received nominations from all the Member States concerned,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following persons are hereby appointed members of the Management Board for a second term from 1 June 2019 to 31 May 2023 (name, nationality, date of birth):
            
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                        Ms Anne-France Marie RIHOUX, Belgian, 12 June 1964,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Enda VESKIMÄE, Estonian, 17 May 1956,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Judīte DIPĀNE, Latvian, 10 April 1971,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Ana Lília GOMES MARTINS, Portuguese, 20 August 1973,
                     
                  
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                        Mr Keith Anthony Trevor BAILEY, British, 2 June 1965.
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The following persons are hereby appointed members of the Management Board for a first term from 1 June 2019 to 31 May 2023 (name, nationality, date of birth):
            
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                        Ms Teodora Todorova VALKOVA, Bulgarian, 5 December 1976,
                     
                  
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                        Mr Magnus Buhl LØFSTEDT, Danish, 19 February, 1977,
                     
                  
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                        Mr Axel Otto VORWERK, German, 13 May 1960,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Sofia ZISSI, Greek, 24 November 1965,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Tasoula KYPRIANIDOU-LEONTIDOU, Cypriot, 2 November 1961,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Donata PIPIRAITĖ-VALIŠKIENĖ, Lithuanian, 28 May 1983,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Ingrid BORG, Maltese, 8 April 1981,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Anna Katarzyna GRACZYK, Polish, 27 March 1978,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Claudia-Sorina DUMITRU, Romanian, 25 July 1981,
                     
                  
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                        Ms Helena POLAKOVIČOVÁ, Slovak, 22 July 1958.
                     
                  
         
            Article 3
            This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 27 May 2019.
            
               
                  For the Council
               
               
                  The President
               
               N. HURDUC
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1.
         
            (2)  Council Decision of 7 June 2007 appointing 27 members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (OJ C 134, 16.6.2007, p. 6).