COMMISSION DECISION of 14 June 1994 amending Commission Decision 93/53/EEC setting up a Scientific Committee for designations of origin, geographical indications and certificates of specific character (94/437/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Whereas Article 5 of Commission Decision 93/53/EEC of 21 December 1992 setting up a Scientific Committee for designations of origin, geographical indications and certificates of specific character (1) stipulates that the Committee's proceedings shall be valid only when all its members are present; whereas this requirement is liable to prevent the Committee from giving opinions; whereas to avoid this inconvenience the Committee's proceedings should be valid when at least five of its members are present,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

In Article 5 of Decision 93/53/EEC the first sentence is hereby replaced by:

'The Committee's proceedings shall be valid only when at least five of its members are present'.

Done at Brussels, 14 June 1994.

For the Commission

René STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 13, 21. 1. 1993, p. 16.