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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-502/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/502",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 10 August 2011 on setting up the Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings and repealing Decision 2007/675/EC (2011/502/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-502",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Operation",
  "text": "1. The group shall be chaired by the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator.\n2. In agreement with the Commission, the group may set up sub-groups to examine specific questions on the basis of terms of reference defined by the group. Such groups shall be dissolved as soon as their mandate is fulfilled.\n3. The Chairperson may invite experts from outside the group with specific competence in a subject on the agenda to participate in the work of the group or a sub-group on an ad-hoc basis.\n4. The Chairperson may invite official representatives of Member States, candidate countries, potential candidates or third countries and of international, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations to participate in the meetings of the group as invited experts or observers.\n5. At the latest 2 months after the beginning and 2 months after the halfway point of the term of office, the Commission and the group shall meet in order to exchange their views regarding the working priorities of the group.\n6. The working priorities shall reflect the need for a coordinated, multi-disciplinary and coherent policy response to all aspects of trafficking in human beings.\n7. Members of the group as well as invited experts and observers shall comply with the obligations of professional secrecy laid down by the Treaties and their implementing rules, as well as with the Commission’s rules on security regarding the protection of EU classified information, laid down in the Annex to Commission Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, EURATOM. Should they fail to respect these obligations, the Commission may take appropriate measures.\n8. The meetings of the group and sub-groups shall be held on Commission premises. The Commission shall provide secretarial services.\n9. The group shall submit its opinions and reports to the Commission. The Commission may fix a deadline by which an opinion or a report is to be delivered.\n10. The deliberations of the group shall not be subject to any vote. When an opinion or a report is adopted unanimously by the group, the latter shall establish common conclusions and attach them to the minutes. When the group fails to reach unanimous agreement on an opinion or a report, it shall inform the Commission of the dissenting views expressed.\n11. The Commission may publish, in the original language of the document concerned, any summary, conclusion or partial conclusion or working document prepared by the group.\n12. The Commission shall publish relevant information on the activities carried out by the group either by including it in the Register or via a link from the Register to the Internet site of DG Home Affairs.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, EURATOM of 29 November 2001 amending its internal Rules of Procedure (OJ L 317, 3.12.2001, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/502/article/5",
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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."
}