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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.

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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.