Commission Decision

of 25 June 2008

amending Decision 2004/706/EC as regards the list of members of the European Corporate Governance Forum

(2008/598/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Whereas:

(1) As one of the actions announced in the Commission’s Action Plan on Modernising Company Law and enhancing Corporate Governance of May 2003 [1], the European Corporate Governance Forum was set up by Commission Decision 2004/706/EC [2].

(2) The objective of the European Corporate Governance Forum is to foster the identification and exchange of best practices existing in Member States in order to ensure a high standard of corporate governance throughout the European Union and to act as a body of reflection and debate, giving advice to the Commission in the field of corporate governance.

(3) The European Corporate Governance Forum, in its three years of existence, has made a significant contribution to the corporate governance discussion in the European Union and has given important input to the work of the Commission in this area.

(4) The three-year mandate of the current members expired on 17 October 2007. According to Article 4 of Decision 2004/706/EC, the members shall remain in office until a decision on their replacement or a renewal of their appointment has been taken.

(5) The list of members contained in the Annex to Decision 2004/706/EC should therefore be replaced by a new list of members for the next term of three years,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

The list of members contained in the Annex to Decision 2004/706/EC is replaced by the list reproduced in the Annex.

Done at Brussels, 25 June 2008.

For the Commission

Charlie McCreevy

Member of the Commission

[1] COM(2003) 284 final.

[2] OJ L 321, 22.10.2004, p. 53.

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ANNEX

- Bistra Boeva,

- Antonio Borges,

- Niklas Bruun,

- Bertrand Collomb,

- David Devlin,

- Jose Maria Garrido Garcia,

- Peter Montagnon,

- Klaus-Peter Müller,

- Colette Neuville,

- Roland Oetker,

- Rolf Skog,

- Marek Sowa,

- Trelawny Williams,

- Jaap Winter,

- Eddy Wymeersch.

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