Article 1
Open ↗Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom is amended as follows: (1) the title shall be replaced by ‘Decision of the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the organisation and operation of the Publications Office of the European Union’; (2) the list of enacting institutions and bodies shall be replaced by the following: ‘THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE COURT OF AUDITORS, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS’; (3) in Article 1(1) the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. The task of the Publications Office of the European Union (hereinafter the Office), which is an interinstitutional office, shall be to publish the publications of the institutions of the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community under optimum conditions.’; (4) Article 4(6) shall be replaced by the following: ‘6. The institutions may conclude service agreements with the Office in order to define the methods of their cooperation. The European External Action Service may also cooperate with the Office and, for this purpose, conclude a service agreement.’; (5) Article 6(1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. A Management Committee shall be established, within which all the signatory institutions are represented. The Management Committee shall be made up of the Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Secretaries-General of the other institutions or their representatives. The European Central Bank shall take part in the work of the Management Committee as an observer. The European Central Bank shall be represented by the Secretary to its Executive Board or by their appointed substitute.’; (6) the list of signatories shall be replaced by the following: ‘For the European Parliament, For the European Council, For the Council, For the Commission, For the Court of Justice of the European Union, For the Court of Auditors, For the European Economic and Social Committee, For the Committee of the Regions’.