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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1999-478/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/1999/478",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 14 July 1999 renewing the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (notified under document number C(1999) 2042) (1999/478/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1999-478",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 14 July 1999\nrenewing the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture\n(notified under document number C(1999) 2042)\n(1999/478/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\n(1)\nWhereas it is important for the Commission to obtain the reactions of the interests concerned on the questions raised by the establishment of a common fisheries policy (CFP);\n(2)\nWhereas an advisory committee (ACF) was created in the fisheries sector by Commission Decision 71/128/EEC the text of which as last replaced by Decision 89/4/EEC, as amended by Decision 97/246/EC;\n(3)\nWhereas it appears opportune to widen, within the framework of the ACF, the dialogue on the development and management of the CFP to all parties concerned, in particular to the aquaculture sector and non-professionnal organisations; whereas for this purpose it is necessary to re-examine the structure of the Committee;\n(4)\nWhereas, in order to encourage the formulation of analyses and of joint positions on the CFP, it is useful to invite the members of ACF to deal first of all with questions of concern to them;\n(5)\nWhereas in the interests of efficiency it is necessary to limit the number of members of the Committee;\n(6)\nWhereas it is useful to improve the dialogue by means of a better link between the plenary committee, assigned to direct the work of the Committee and to express opinions, and the working groups charged with preparing these opinions;\n(7)\nWhereas the mandate of the members of the Committee expires on 31 July 1999 at the end of a transitional period set for the reform of the aforementioned Committee and that it is therefore appropriate to amend the text of the Decision in the sense indicated above;\n(8)\nWhereas in the interests of clarity the text of Decision 71/128/EEC should be replaced,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 68, 22.3.1971, p. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 5, 7.1.1989, p. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 97, 12.4.1997, p. 27."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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