Article 47

General provisions 1. In implementing this Regulation, the Commission shall be assisted by four committees: the Committee on the Development and Conversion of Regions; the Committee pursuant to Article 147 of the Treaty; the Committee on Agricultural Structures and Rural Development; the Committee on Structures for Fisheries and Aquaculture. 2. Where the Committees mentioned in paragraph 1(a), (c) and (d) are acting as Consultative Committees pursuant to Articles 48, 50 and 51 respectively, the following procedure applies: the Commission representative shall submit to the committee a draft of the measure to be taken, the committee shall deliver its opinion on this draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter; the matter may be put to a vote where appropriate, its opinions shall be entered in the minutes; each Member State shall in addition have the right to ask for its position to be included in the minutes, the Commission shall take the utmost account of the opinions delivered by the committee. It shall inform the committee of the manner in which it takes account of its opinions. 3. Where the committees mentioned in paragraph 1(a), (c) and (d) are acting as Management Committees pursuant to Articles 48, 50 and 51 respectively, the following procedure applies: the Commission representative shall submit to the committee a draft of the measure to be taken, the committee shall deliver its opinion on this draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter under consideration. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority stipulated in Article 205(2) of the Treaty in the case of decisions which the Council is requested to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. When a matter is put to the vote within the committee, the votes of the Member States' representatives shall be weighted as provided for in the said Article. The chairman shall not vote, the Commission shall adopt measures which shall apply immediately. However, if they are not in accordance with the opinion delivered by the committee, they shall be communicated forthwith by the Commission to the Council. In that event: the Commission may defer application of the measure which it has decided for a period of not more than one month from the date of such communication, the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take a different decision within the time limit provided for in the above sub-indent. 4. The Commission shall refer the reports referred to in Article 45 to the committees. It may seek the opinion of a Committee on any matter concerning assistance under the Funds, other than assistance provided for in this Title. This includes matters primarily dealt with by other committees. 5. Each committee's opinions shall be brought to the attention of the other committees referred to in this Title. 6. Each committee shall draw up its rules of procedure. 7. The European Parliament shall be regularly informed of the work of the committees.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.