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Article 4 Membership — Appointment

United Kingdom

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1.

The group shall be composed of up to 20 members.

2.

The Director-General of DG ‘Information Society and Media’ shall appoint the members of the group from specialists with competence in the areas referred to in Articles 2 and 3.

3.

The members shall be appointed in a personal capacity as high level experts on digital libraries and shall advise the Commission independently of any outside influence.

4.

Members shall be appointed to ensure, as far as possible, an adequate balance in terms of range of competencies, geographical origin and gender.

5.

The Group shall include experts from the following categories:

  • memory organisations (libraries, archives, museums),

  • authors, publishers and content providers,

  • ICT industry (e.g. search engines, technology providers),

  • scientific and research organisations, academia.

6.

Members may not designate an alternate to replace them.

7.

Members are appointed for a mandate which ends on 31 December 2009.

8.

Members who are no longer capable of contributing effectively to the group’s deliberations, who resign or who do not comply with the conditions set out in paragraph 3 of this Article or in Article 287 of the Treaty may be replaced for the remainder of their term of office.

9.

Members shall sign an undertaking to act in the public interest and a declaration indicating the absence or existence of any interest which may undermine their objectivity.

10.

The names of members shall be collected, processed and published in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001. The names of members shall be published on the i2010 Digital libraries website.