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The procedure for the selection and appointment of experts shall be the following: Member States shall nominate experts, under their responsibility, who can be deployed as members of expert teams; the Commission shall select the experts and the leader for those teams on the basis of their qualifications and experience, including the level of the Union Mechanism training undertaken, previous experience of missions under the Union Mechanism and other international relief work. The selection shall also be based on other criteria, including language skills, so as to ensure that the team as a whole has the available skills needed in the specific situation; and the Commission shall appoint experts/team leaders for the mission in agreement with their nominating Member State.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.