Article 49

Committee pursuant to Article 147 of the Treaty 1. The committee set up pursuant to Article 147 of the Treaty shall be composed of two government representatives, two representatives of the workers' organisations and two representatives of the employers' organisations from each Member State. The Member of the Commission responsible for chairing the committee may delegate that responsibility to a senior Commission official. For each Member State, an alternate shall be appointed for each category of representative mentioned in the first paragraph. In the absence of one or both members, the alternate shall be automatically entitled to take part in the proceedings. The members and alternates shall be appointed by the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, for a period of three years. They may be reappointed. The Council shall, as regards the composition of the committee, endeavour to ensure fair representation of the different groups concerned. For the items on the agenda affecting it, the EIB shall appoint a non-voting representative. 2. The committee shall: deliver opinions on the draft Commission decisions relating to single programming documents and to Community support frameworks under Objective 3 as well as on the Community support frameworks and corresponding information contained in the single programming documents, under Objectives 1 and 2, in the case of support from the ESF; deliver its opinion on the implementing rules provided for in Article 53(2); be consulted on the implementing rules referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1262/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 June 1999 on the European Social Fund (ESF)(14); deliver opinions on draft Commission guidelines relating to the Community initiative referred to in Article 20(1)(d) ("EQUAL") and for the various types of innovative measure in the context of Article 22 in the case of support from the ESF. The Commission may also refer further questions to it within the meaning of Articles 20 to 22; be consulted on the types of technical-assistance measure in accordance with Article 23 in the case of support from the ESF. 3. For their adoption, the opinions of the committee shall require an absolut majority of the votes validly cast. The Commission shall inform the committee of the manner in which it has taken 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.