Decision 2019/853 - Composition of the European Economic and Social Committee

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  1. Current status
  2. Key information
  3. Key dates
  4. Legislative text
  5. Original proposal
  6. Sources and disclaimer
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Current status

This decision has been published on May 27, 2019 and entered into force on June 16, 2019.

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Key information

official title

Council Decision (EU) 2019/853 of 21 May 2019 determining the composition of the European Economic and Social Committee
 
Legal instrument Decision
Number legal act Decision 2019/853
Original proposal COM(2018)783 EN
CELEX number i 32019D0853

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Key dates

Document 21-05-2019; Date of adoption
Publication in Official Journal 27-05-2019; OJ L 139 p. 15-16
Effect 16-06-2019; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 2
21-09-2020; Application See Art 2
End of validity 31-12-9999

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Legislative text

27.5.2019   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 139/15
 

COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2019/853

of 21 May 2019

determining the composition of the European Economic and Social Committee

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 301 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

 

(1)

Article 300 of the Treaty sets out the rules for the composition of the European Economic and Social Committee.
 

(2)

Council Decision (EU) 2015/1157 (1) adapted the composition of the European Economic and Social Committee following the accession of Croatia. The number of members for each of Estonia, Cyprus and Luxembourg was reduced by one in order to address the discrepancy between the maximum number of members of the European Economic and Social Committee set out in the first paragraph of Article 301 of the Treaty and the number of members of the European Economic and Social Committee following the accession of Croatia.
 

(3)

The preamble to Decision (EU) 2015/1157 states that that Decision is to be revised in time for the mandate of the European Economic and Social Committee starting in 2020.
 

(4)

On 18 September 2018, the European Economic and Social Committee adopted recommendations to the Commission and to the Council on its future composition.
 

(5)

The current balance in the composition of the European Economic and Social Committee should as far as possible be maintained as it is the result of successive Intergovernmental Conferences.
 

(6)

The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union would result in 24 vacant seats in the European Economic and Social Committee. Therefore, the balance in the allocation of seats that existed before the adoption of Decision (EU) 2015/1157 should be restored,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

  • 1. 
    The number of members of the European Economic and Social Committee shall be as follows:
 

Belgium

12

Bulgaria

12

Czechia

12

Denmark

9

Germany

24

Estonia

7

Ireland

9

Greece

12

Spain

21

France

24

Croatia

9

Italy

24

Cyprus

6

Latvia

7

Lithuania

9

Luxembourg

6

Hungary

12

Malta

5

Netherlands

12

Austria

12

Poland

21

Portugal

12

Romania

15

Slovenia

7

Slovakia

9

Finland

9

Sweden

12.
  • 2. 
    In the event that the United Kingdom is still a Member State of the Union at the date of application of this Decision, the number of members of the European Economic and Social Committee shall be that provided for in Article 1 of Decision (EU) 2015/1157 until the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union becomes legally effective. From the date that the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the Union becomes legally effective, the number of members of the European Economic and Social Committee shall be that provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 21 September 2020.

Done at Brussels, 21 May 2019.

For the Council

The President

  • G. 
    CIAMBA
 
  • (1) 
    Council Decision (EU) 2015/1157 of 14 July 2015 determining the composition of the European Economic and Social Committee (OJ L 187, 15.7.2015, p. 28).
 

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