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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-215/annex/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2008/215",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 18 February 2008 adopting the rules of procedure of the European Development Fund Committee (2008/215/EC)",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Documentation to be sent to Committee members",
  "text": "1. The Chairman shall send the invitation to the meeting, the draft agenda and proposed measures about which the Committee's opinion is required and any other working documents to the Committee members via the secretariat in the official languages of the Community, as a general rule no later than 15 working days before the date of the meeting.\n2. In urgent cases, and where the measures to be adopted must be applied immediately, the Chair may, at the request of a Committee member or on his or her own initiative, shorten the period laid down in paragraph 1 to five working days before the date of the meeting.\n3. By way of exception, in duly substantiated cases of extreme urgency (e.g. serious economic, social and political circumstances, natural disasters suffered by the recipient country, humanitarian crisis or other external circumstances of a similar nature requiring a very rapid reaction), the Chair may, at the request of a Committee Member or on his or her own initiative, depart from the periods laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2.\n4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 do not apply to Strategy Papers and Multiannual Indicative Programmes and their adjustment as a result of the mid-term and end-of-term reviews referred to in Articles 4 and 5 of the 10th EDF Implementing Regulation.\n5. In the case of proposals submitted to the Committee for its opinion by oral procedure, delegations should notify the secretariat of the Committee in writing at least three working days before the date of the meeting of:\n(a) those items to which they can already give their assent in principle and that they propose including as A items (with or without comments or requests for further information) on the agenda referred to in Article 4(1); and\n(b) those items that they think need discussion and that they propose entering as B items.\nDelegations formulate any comments and requests for further information in writing and within the same time-limit.\nThe Commission shall provide further information and respond to any comments, wherever possible, in writing and before the meeting of the Committee.",
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