Tasks
Article 44
1. The Scientific Advisory Group to be established pursuant to Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2152/2003 shall advise the Standing Forestry Committee on the following subjects: (a) the need to carry out specific studies or analyses; (b) the need to set up ad hoc working groups for specific topics; (c) the improvement of the organisation and structure of the monitoring scheme; (d) science-policy interface; 2. The Scientific Advisory Group may give its opinion on: (a) proposals for studies, (b) results deriving from the studies such as relevance and data quality and, more generally, from the reports presenting the results from the monitoring scheme, (c) draft manuals. 3. The mandate of the Scientific Advisory Group shall be limited to the execution period of the scheme set out in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2152/2003.