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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-986/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2009/986",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 18 December 2009 establishing the group of experts for technical advice on the School Fruit Scheme (2009/986/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-986",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 18 December 2009\nestablishing the group of experts for technical advice on the School Fruit Scheme\n(2009/986/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nTo ensure the successful implementation of the School Fruit Scheme, established by Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 13/2009, hereinafter referred to as ‘School Fruit Scheme’, the Commission should be able to receive technical expert advice from a forum of experts with expertise in nutrition, epidemiology, public health and health promotion, behavioural and social sciences, evaluation.\n(2)\nIt is therefore necessary to set up a group of independent experts and to define its tasks and its structure.\n(3)\nThe expert group should provide the Commission with expert input in a wide range of fields related to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the School Fruit Scheme. The expert group should also provide the Commission with assistance as regards the elaboration of the report referred to in Article 184(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.\n(4)\nThe members of the expert group should be appointed in a personal capacity and deliver independent advice to the Commission. Members of the expert group should have complementary backgrounds and combine both scientific and practical knowledge. The composition of the expert group should reflect an adequate geographical balance within the European Union.\n(5)\nThe Commission’s representative in the expert group should be entitled to invite experts or observers with experience in a specific field to participate in the group’s work.\n(6)\nRules on disclosure of information by members of the expert group should be provided for, without prejudice to the Commission’s rules on security as set out in the Annex to Commission Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom.\n(7)\nPersonal data relating to members of the expert group should be processed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 5, 9.1.2009, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 317, 3.12.2001, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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