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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-79/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/79",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 10 February 2012 appointing an Austrian member of the Committee of the Regions (2012/79/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-79",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 10 February 2012\nappointing an Austrian member of the Committee of the Regions\n(2012/79/EU)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 305 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Austrian Government,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nOn 22 December 2009 and 18 January 2010, the Council adopted Decisions 2009/1014/EU and 2010/29/EU appointing the members and alternate members of the Committee of the Regions for the period from 26 January 2010 to 25 January 2015. On 26 April 2010, Mr Markus WALLNER was appointed as member until 25 January 2015 by Council Decision 2010/242/EU, following the end of the term of office of Mr Herbert SAUSGRUBER.\n(2)\nA member’s seat on the Committee of the Regions has become vacant following the end of the electoral mandate on the basis of which Mr Markus WALLNER was appointed,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 348, 29.12.2009, p. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 12, 19.1.2010, p. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 107, 29.4.2010, p. 20."
    }
  ],
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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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