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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2001-886/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2001/886",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 6 December 2001 on the development of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) (2001/886/JHA)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2001-886",
  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where reference is made to this Article, the Commission shall be assisted by a management committee composed of the representatives of the Member States and chaired by the representative of the Commission.\n2. The committee shall adopt its rules of procedure on a proposal by the chair on the basis of standard rules of procedure which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.\n3. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft, within a time-limit which the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 205(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, in the case of decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The chairman shall not vote.\n4. The Commission shall adopt measures which shall apply immediately. However, if these measures are not in accordance with the opinion of the committee, they shall be communicated by the Commission to the Council forthwith. In that event, the Commission may defer application of the measures which it has decided on for a period of two months from the date of such communication.\n5. The Council, acting by qualified majority, may take a different decision within the period provided for by paragraph 4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2001/886/article/5",
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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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