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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-178/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/178",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 27 February 2006 setting up a High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries (This text annuls and replaces the text published in Official Journal L 46 of 16 February 2006, p. 32) (2006/178/EC)",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 27 February 2006\nsetting up a High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries\n(This text annuls and replaces the text published in Official Journal L 46 of 16 February 2006, p. 32)\n(2006/178/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nArticle 157 of the Treaty establishing the European Community assigns the Community and the Member States the task of ensuring that the conditions necessary for the competitiveness of the Community's industry exist. Article 151 provides that the Community shall contribute to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States, while respecting their national and regional diversity and at the same time bringing the common cultural heritage to the fore.\n(2)\nThe Communication from the Commission ‘i2010 — A European Information Society for growth and employment’ announced a flagship initiative on digital libraries.\n(3)\nThe Communication from the Commission ‘i2010: Digital Libraries’ (hereafter ‘the Communication’) announced the creation of a High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries that will advise the Commission on how to best address the organisational, legal and technical challenges at European level.\n(4)\nThe White Paper on a European Communication Policy adopted by the Commission on 1 February 2006 mentions the essential role that digital libraries can play in providing free access to European citizens to information on Europe through information technologies.\n(5)\nThe group must contribute to a shared strategic vision for European digital libraries.\n(6)\nThe group must be made up of highly qualified experts with competence on digital libraries, appointed in a personal capacity.\n(7)\nThe ‘High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries’ therefore has to be set up and its terms of reference and structure detailed,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "COM(2005) 229 final."
    },
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "COM(2005) 465 final."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "COM(2006) 35 final."
    }
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