{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-570/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2010/570",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 13 September 2010 appointing the members of the European Economic and Social Committee for the period from 21 September 2010 to 20 September 2015 (2010/570/EU, Euratom)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-570",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 13 September 2010\nappointing the members of the European Economic and Social Committee for the period from 21 September 2010 to 20 September 2015\n(2010/570/EU, Euratom)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 300(2) and 302 thereof, in conjunction with Article 7 of the Protocol on Transitional Provisions annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,\nHaving regard to the proposals made by each Member State,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe term of office of the current members of the European Economic and Social Committee expires on 20 September 2010. Members of that Committee should therefore be appointed for a period of 5 years as from 21 September 2010.\n(2)\nEach Member State has submitted a list containing a number of candidates equal to the number of seats allocated to it by the Treaty, all such candidates being representatives of organisations of employers, of the employed and of other parties representative of civil society, notably in socioeconomic, civic, professional and cultural areas. However, the Government of Romania will propose at a later stage one further candidate to complete the list according to the number of seats allocated by the Treaty,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Decision 2006/524/EC, Euratom of 11 July 2006 appointing Czech, German, Estonian, Spanish, French, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Hungarian, Maltese, Austrian, Slovenian and Slovak members of the European Economic and Social Committee (OJ L 207, 28.7.2006, p. 30); Council Decision 2006/651/EC, Euratom of 15 September 2006 appointing Belgian, Greek, Irish, Cypriot, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish and British members and two Italian members of the European Economic and Social Committee (OJ L 269, 28.9.2006, p. 13); Council Decision 2006/703/EC, Euratom of 16 October 2006 appointing the Danish members of the European Economic and Social Committee (OJ L 291, 21.10.2006, p. 33); and Council Decision 2007/3/EC, Euratom of 1 January 2007 appointing the Bulgarian and Romanian members of the European Economic and Social Committee (OJ L 1, 4.1.2007, p. 6)."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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