{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-210/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-210/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/210",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 28 February 2006 setting up a group of high-level national regulatory experts (2006/210/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-210",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Composition — Appointment",
  "text": "1. The Commission charges the Secretary General to appoint the members of the group on the basis of the candidates proposed by the Member States.\n2. The group shall comprise one or, in some exceptional cases, two members per Member State. Alternate members can be appointed by the Secretary General of the Commission on Member State proposal and automatically replace members who are absent or indisposed.\n3. The following provisions shall apply:\nthe members shall be high-level officials with experience in the field concerned and representatives of a public authority,\nthe members are appointed for a one year renewable mandate. They shall remain in office until such time as they are replaced or their mandate ends,\nthe members who are no longer able to contribute effectively to the group’s deliberations, who resign or who do not respect the conditions set out in the first or second point of this Article or Article 287 of the Treaty establishing the European Community may be replaced for the remaining period of their mandate,\nthe names of the appointed members shall be published on the Internet site of the Commission.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Two members per Member State may be appointed by the Commission if there is shared competency at the level of the administration in that Member State."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/210/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:39.980300+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."
}