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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/355",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2015/355 of 2 March 2015 adopting the rules of procedure of the European Development Fund Committee",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Opinion of the Committee",
  "text": "1. Where a matter is put to the Committee for its opinion, it shall be discussed under the conditions and according to the procedure set out in Article 14(3) and (4), respectively, of the 11th EDF Implementation Regulation and in Article 8(2) and (3) of the Internal Agreement between the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Union, meeting within the Council, on the financing of European Union aid under the multiannual financial framework for the period 2014 to 2020, in accordance with the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, and on the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union applies (‘the Internal Agreement’).\n2. Unless a member of the Committee objects, the Chair may, without proceeding to a formal vote, establish that the Committee has delivered a positive opinion, by consensus, on the draft measures.\n3. When the oral procedure is used, and a substantive change is made or new factual elements are added to the draft measures during the meeting, the Chair, on his or her own initiative or at the request of a Member State, may postpone the vote on a particular agenda item until the end of the meeting or until a subsequent meeting.\n4. If, pursuant to paragraph 3, the Chair decides not to postpone the vote as requested by one or more delegations, the requesting delegation(s) may enter a reservation which may be withdrawn within a maximum of three working days from the day following the meeting. The Committee's opinion shall be recorded as definitive upon expiry of this period. The Commission shall inform Member States of the definitive position adopted by the Member State(s) whose delegation(s) entered a reservation in the Committee.\n5. Subject to the second subparagraph of this paragraph, if the documents relating to a specific agenda point have not been sent to Committee members within the time limit laid down in Article 5(1) and (2) voting on an issue shall be postponed to the next meeting.\nAt the proposal of the Chair or at the request of a Committee member, the Committee may decide by a simple majority of its members to keep this point on the agenda due to the urgency of the matter. If necessary, the written procedure provided for in Article 11 of these rules of procedure may be applied.\n6. In the context of an examination of annual or multiannual action programmes, any delegation may request the withdrawal of a project or programme from the action programme. If that request is supported by a blocking minority of delegations, as laid down in Article 8(3) of the Internal Agreement, in connection with Article 8(2) of the Internal Agreement, the action programme shall be adopted by the Commission without the project or programme concerned. Unless the Commission, in line with the views of the delegations in the Committee, wishes not to pursue the withdrawn project or programme, it shall, at a later stage, be resubmitted to the Committee outside the action programme in the form of an individual measure which shall then be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 14 of the 11th EDF Implementation Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "OJ L 210, 6.8.2013, p. 1."
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