ANNEX to the Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the sixty-sixth session of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Main contents

Document date	30-09-2015
Publication date	01-10-2015
Reference	11651/15 ADD 1
From	Secretary-General of the European Commission, signed by Mr Jordi AYET PUIGARNAU, Director
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Council of the European Union

Brussels, 30 September 2015 (OR. en)

11651/15

Interinstitutional File: ADD 1

2015/0237 (NLE)

ASILE 13 CONUN 163

PROPOSAL

From: Secretary-General of the European Commission, signed by Mr Jordi AYET PUIGARNAU, Director

date of receipt: 30 September 2015

To: Mr Jeppe TRANHOLM-MIKKELSEN, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

No. Cion doc.: COM(2015) 488 final ANNEX 1

Subject: ANNEX to the Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the sixty-sixth session of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Delegations will find attached the Commission document COM(2015) 488 final ANNEX 1.

Encl.: COM(2015) 488 final ANNEX 1

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 30.9.2015 COM(2015) 488 final

ANNEX 1

ANNEX

to the

Proposal for a Council Decision

on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the sixty-sixth session of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees

ANNEX

to the

Proposal for a Council Decision

on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the sixty-sixth session of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees

Member States that are members of the Executive Committee of the UNHCR shall support the adoption of the following amendment to the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Committee of the UNHCR:

"Rule 33 of the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/187/Rev.7) is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The meetings of the Committee shall be held in public unless the Committee decides otherwise. The Chair, in consultation with the Committee, may invite specialized agencies, UN funds and programmes and intergovernmental organizations to participate in private meetings on the basis of their expertise and contributions to the work of the Committee.""