Functioning
Article 3
1. Where the situation of relations between the European Union and a third country as regards migration has such an impact as to require coordination and a timely response from the Union, the Presidency may convene, with the support and advice of the General Secretariat of the Council, a MOCADEM roundtable. 2. The MOCADEM roundtable shall aim to synthesize the information and policy proposals provided by the various Council preparatory bodies as well as by other invited parties. Based in particular on the working summaries drawn up by the Council Working Party on External Aspects of Asylum and Migration, and relevant work carried out by other Council working parties (such as the Visa Working Party, the Working Party on Integration, Migration and Expulsion, the Working Party on Development Cooperation and International Partnerships, or the geographical working parties). It shall prepare operational actions to be proposed to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper), in any area relevant for the relationships between the European Union and the third country concerned in the field of migration. 3. The Presidency shall decide on the composition of the MOCADEM roundtables. The Commission services and the European External Action Service (EEAS) shall be invited to participate and to present a summary contribution in respect of all their respective areas of competence. Interested Member States shall be invited to participate. Relevant Union bodies, offices or agencies, other relevant stakeholders, and experts in certain fields shall also be invited to participate, as appropriate. 4. The level of representation of each invited institution, body, office, agency or other party shall be appropriate to the operational and decision-making objective of the roundtable.