93/72/EEC: Commission Decision of 23 December 1992 on the setting-up of an Advisory Committee for coordination in the Internal Market field

• Articles: 7

Article 1

1. There shall be attached to the Commission and Advisory Committee for coordination in the Internal Market field, hereinafter referred to as 'the Committee'.

2. The Committee shall comprise two representatives of each Member State and be chaired by a representative of the Commission.

Article 2

1. The Committee may be consulted by the Commission on any practical problem which may arise after 1 January 1993 concerning the functioning of the Internal Market other than those which are covered by action taken in accordance with arrangements to notify to the Commission and/or exchange information between the Member States and the Commission, laid down in any other applicable Community measure or established within an existing framework for practical cooperation between the Commission and the Member States.

2. A member of the Committee may ask the Commission that the Committee should be consulted on any matter falling with the Committee's competence.

Article 3

Working groups may be established to facilitate the Commission's work.

Article 4

1. A Secretariat for the Committee shall be provided by the Commission services.

2. The chairman may invite any person with particular competence in respect of an item included on the agenda to take part in the deliberations as an expert. Experts shall take part in the deliberations only in respect of the item for which they have been invited to attend.

3. Representatives for the Commission services concerned shall take part in meetings of the Committee and its working groups.

4. The Committee shall be convened by the Commission and shall meet at Commission headquarters.

Article 5

1. The Committee shall discuss matters on which the Commission has requested an opinion. No vote shall be taken.

2. The Commission may, when seeking the opinion of the Committee, set a time limit within which such opinion shall be given.

3. The views expressed by the representatives of the Member States shall be included in the minutes.

Article 6

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 214 of the Treaty, where the Commission informs the Committee that the opinion requested or the question raised is on a matter of a confidential nature, members of the Committee and, where appropriate, the experts referred to in Article 4 (2), shall be under an obligation not to disclose information which has come to their knowledge through the work of the Committee or of its working groups.

Article 7

This Decision shall take effect on 1 January 1993.

Done at Brussels, 23 December 1992.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Vice-President