Council Decision of 16 February 2007 appointing members of the European Social Fund Committee

7.3.2007 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 52/5
COUNCIL DECISION
of 16 February 2007
appointing members of the European Social Fund Committee
(2007/C 52/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 147 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11 July 2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 (1), and in particular Article 104(3) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Under Council Decision 2005/C 252/01 of 24 September 2004 renewing the membership of the European Social Fund Committee (2)(hereinafter the Committee), the term of office of the members expires on 30 April 2007.
(2) Article 104(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 sets out different requirements for the nomination of representatives and their alternates from those laid down in Article 49(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down provisions on the Structural Funds (3), therefore, the composition of the Committee should be respectively adjusted.
(3) It is however appropriate that the Committee continues to carry out its tasks under its present set up till the end of the 2000-2006 programming period and the new set-up becomes operational only as from 1 January 2007.
(4) Pending nomination of a representative and/or an alternate member for one of the categories referred to in Article 104(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 by Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece and the United Kingdom, already nominated representatives and alternate members for the Committee should nevertheless be appointed in view of the start of the 2007-2013 programming period.
(5) The members and alternate members of the Committee should therefore be appointed for a period of three years,