Council Decision appointing the members of the Scientific and Technical Committee

(2004/C 311/02)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 134 thereof,

Having regard to the opinion of the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) By its Decision of 22 December 2003 [1], the Council appointed the members of the Scientific and Technical Committee for the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2008. However, by virtue of Article 50 of the Act concerning the conditions of accession [2], their terms of office expired on 1 May 2004 and new members should be appointed.

(2) In order to allow the Scientific and Technical Committee to make full use of the wide range of expertise required in fulfilling its tasks, the Committee may, subject to its internal rules, call on alternates to the members to participate in its meetings,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following are hereby appointed members of the Scientific and Technical Committee for the period 1 May 2004 to 30 April 2009:

Bertrand BARRE

Janis BERZINS

Sten BJURSTR?M

Michel BOURGUIGNON

Udo BROCKMEIER

Leonidas CAMARINOPOULOS

Michel CHATELIER

Pavel CHR?SKA

Maurizio CUMO

Allan DUNCAN

Manfred HEINDLER

Sue ION

Michael KAUFMANN

J?rgen KJEMS

Zdeněk K???

Peter LI?KA

Carlo LOMBARDI

José Maria MART?NEZ-VAL PE?ALOSA

Júlio Martins MONTALV?O E SILVA

Jerzy Wiktor NIEWODNICZA?SKI

Tom O'FLAHERTY

Derek POOLEY

Enn REALO

Francesco ROMANELLI

Juan Antonio RUBIO RODRIGUEZ

Rainer SALOMAA

Jean-Paul SAMAIN

Edouard SINNER

Borut SMODI?

Michael SAILER

Zoltán SZATM?RY

Eugenijus USPURAS

Theofiel VAN RENTERGEM

Carlos VARANDAS

Adrianus H. M.VERKOOIJEN

Andreas M.VERSTEEGH

Sándor ZOLETNIK

Done at Brussels, 25 November 2004.

For the Council

The President

L. Brinkhorst

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[1] OJ C 8, 13.1.2004, p. 1.

[2] OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33.