{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-300/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-300/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2007/300",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (Euratom) No 300/2007 of 19 February 2007 establishing an Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-300",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Committee",
  "text": "1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee composed of the representatives of the Member States and chaired by the representative of the Commission.\n2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, the following procedure shall apply:\n(a) the representative of the Commission shall submit to the committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 118(2) of the Euratom Treaty, in the case of decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The chairman shall not vote;\n(b) the Commission shall adopt measures which shall apply immediately. However, if these measures are not in accordance with the opinion of the committee, they shall be communicated by the Commission to the Council forthwith. In that event, the Commission may defer application of the measures on which it has decided for a period of 30 days;\n(c) the Council, acting by qualified majority, may take a different decision within the period provided for under (b).\n3. The committee shall adopt its rules of procedure, on the proposal of its chairman, on the basis of standard rules of procedure as published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The committee shall lay down in its rules of procedure special rules on consultation which shall enable the Commission, where necessary, to adopt special measures by an emergency procedure.\nThe principles and conditions on public access to documents applicable to the Commission shall apply to the committee.\nThe European Parliament shall be informed by the Commission of committee proceedings on a regular basis. To that end, it shall receive agendas for committee meetings, and the results of voting and summary records of the meetings and lists of the authorities and organisations to which the persons designated by the Member States to represent them belong.\n4. An observer from the European Investment Bank may take part in the committee's proceedings with regard to questions concerning the Bank.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/300/article/19",
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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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