{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-159/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-159/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2005/159",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 17 February 2005 appointing six Belgian members and eight Belgian alternate members of the Committee of the Regions (2005/159/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-159",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "Sole Article",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following are hereby appointed to the Committee of the Regions:\na)) as members:\nMr Yves LETERME\nMinister-President van de Vlaamse Regering en Vlaams Minister van Institutionele Hervormingen, Landbouw, Zeevisserij en Plattelandsbeleid\nto replace Mr Frans RAMON\nMr Bart SOMERS\nVlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger\n(on the basis of his new mandate as a member of the Flemish Parliament)\nMs Fientje MOERMAN\nVice-Minister-President van de Vlaamse Regering en Vlaams Minister van Economie, Ondernemen, Wetenschap, Innovatie en Buitenlandse Handel\nto replace Mr Stefaan PLATTEAU\nMr Geert BOURGEOIS\nVlaams Minister van Bestuurzaken, Buitenlands Beleid, Media en Tourisme\nto replace Mr Paul VAN GREMBERGEN\nMr Michel LEBRUN\nDéputé wallon\nto replace Mr Xavier DESGAIN\nMr Jean-François ISTASSE\nPrésident du Parlement de la Communauté française\nto replace Mr Hervé HASQUIN;\nb)) as alternate members:\nMr Johan SAUWENS\nVlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger\nto replace Mr André DENYS\nMr Bart CARON\nVlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger\nto replace Mr Jacques TIMMERMANS\nMr Stefaan PLATTEAU\nBurgemeester,\nto replace Ms Josée VERCAMMEN\nMs Marie-Dominique SIMONET\nMinistre de la Recherche, des Technologies nouvelles et des relations extérieures du Gouvernement wallon\nto replace Mr Serge KUBLA\nMr Maurice BAYENET\nDéputé au Parlement de la Communauté française\nto replace Mr Jean-Marc NOLLET\nMr Béa DIALLO\nDéputé au Parlement de la Communauté française\nto replace Mr Rudy DEMOTTE\nMr Claude DESAMA\nBourgmestre de Verviers\nto replace Mr Bernd GENTGES\nMr Jan ROEGIERS\nVlaams Volksvertegenwoordiger\nto replace Mr Jos BEX\nfor the remainder of their term of office, which runs until 25 January 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2005/159/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:59.401066+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}