EUR-Lex Access to European Union law

Back to EUR-Lex homepage

This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website

Document 32021D2242

Council Decision (EU) 2021/2242 of 13 December 2021 amending Decision 2009/908/EU laying down measures for the implementation of the European Council Decision on the exercise of the Presidency of the Council, and on the chairmanship of preparatory bodies of the Council

ST/14240/2021/INIT

OJ L 450, 16.12.2021, p. 148–148 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

Legal status of the document In force

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2021/2242/oj

16.12.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 450/148


COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2021/2242

of 13 December 2021

amending Decision 2009/908/EU laying down measures for the implementation of the European Council Decision on the exercise of the Presidency of the Council, and on the chairmanship of preparatory bodies of the Council

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to European Council Decision 2009/881/EU of 1 December 2009 on the exercise of the Presidency of the Council (1), and in particular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

By Decision 2009/908/EU (2), the Council laid down measures for the implementation of Decision 2009/881/EU. The preparatory bodies of the Council which are not chaired by the 6-monthly Presidency are listed in Annex III to Decision 2009/908/EU, as provided for in Article 2, third subparagraph, of Decision 2009/881/EU.

(2)

In light of the advisory nature as well as of the experience and the type of tasks carried out by the European Research Area and Innovation Committee, that committee should be added to the list of preparatory bodies that are not chaired by the 6-monthly Presidency.

(3)

Decision 2009/908/EU should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Annex III to Decision 2009/908/EU, the following preparatory body is added to the list entitled ‘Elected chairs’:

‘European Research Area and Innovation Committee’.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

It shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2021.

For the Council

The President

J. BORRELL FONTELLES


(1)   OJ L 315, 2.12.2009, p. 50.

(2)  Council Decision 2009/908/EU of 1 December 2009 laying down measures for the implementation of the European Council Decision on the exercise of the Presidency of the Council, and on the chairmanship of preparatory bodies of the Council (OJ L 322, 9.12.2009, p. 28).


Top