(1)

Article 79 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 provides that the Council is to appoint one representative from each Member State as a member of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (the ‘Management Board’).

(2)

The members of the Management Board are to be appointed on the basis of their relevant experience and expertise in the fields of chemical safety or the regulation of chemicals, and on the basis that relevant expertise in the fields of general, financial and legal matters is available amongst board members.

(3)

The term of office is four years and may be renewed once.

(4)

By its Decisions of 27 May 2019 (2) and of 6 May 2021 (3), the Council appointed 15 and 12 members of the Management Board respectively.

(5)

The members of the Management Board nominated by Germany, Cyprus, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Slovakia, Portugal, Latvia, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and France were appointed for a period ending on 31 May 2027.

(6)

The Council has received nominations from all the Member States concerned,

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Ms Ingrid BORG, Maltese, (*1);

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Ms Claudia-Sorina DUMITRU, Romanian, (*1);

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Mrs Tasoula KYPRIANIDOU – LEONTIDOU, Cypriot, (*1);

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Ms Anna Katarzyna LEWANDOWSKA, Polish, (*1);

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Ms Donata PIPIRAITĖ-VALIŠKIENĖ, Lithuanian, (*1);

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Mrs Teodora VALKOVA, Bulgarian, (*1);

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Dr Axel Otto VORWERK, German, (*1);

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Ms Sofia ZISI, Greek, (*1).

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Mrs Catheline Irène DANTINNE, Belgian, (*1);

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Ms Kristīne KAZEROVSKA, Latvian, (*1);

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Ms Agnès LEFRANC, French, (*1);

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Ms Dília Maria LIMA JARDIM, Portuguese, (*1);

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Ms Annemari LINNO, Estonian, (*1);

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Ms Yvonne Marie MULLOOLY, Irish, (*1);

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Mrs Charlotta Amalia WALLENSTEIN, Danish, (*1);

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Ms Katarína ZGALINOVIČOVÁ, Slovak, (*1).