COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 18 February 1980 concerning the Advisory Committee on Programme Management for the Management and Storage of Radioactive Waste

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

HEREBY ADOPTS THIS RESOLUTION: 1. In addition to the tasks laid down in paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the resolution of 18 July 1977 on advisory committees on research programme management, the Advisory Committee on Programme Management for the Management and Storage of Radioactive Waste shall be given the additional task of advising the Commission in connection with implementation of the Community plan of action on radioactive waste approved by the Council in its resolution of 18 February 1980.

2. The Committee shall deliver opinions separate from those referred to in the resolution of 18 July 1977 where they are concerned with implementation of the plan ; these opinions shall be prepared by the secretariat and submitted for the Committee's approval Any member of the Committee may request that his views be recorded in these opinions. Opinions shall be forwarded to the Commission and a copy sent to the Council.

3. For the purpose of carrying out the task referred to in paragraph 1 of this resolution, and notwithstanding paragraph 7 of the resolution of 18 July 1977, the Governments of the Member States and the Commission may, if they deem it advisable, appoint up to two experts per delegation to replace the members appointed for the management of the research programme.

4. The Advisory Committee on Programme Management for the Management and Storage of Radioactive Waste shall carry out the additional task referred to in this resolution, in accordance with the detailed rules specified, for the full duration of the Community's plan of action in the field of radioactive waste, even if its original task has been completed.

5. This resolution supplements the resolution of 18 July 1977.