Consolidated version of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community 2016/C 203/01

Article 134U.K.

1.A Scientific and Technical Committee is hereby set up; it shall be attached to the Commission and shall have advisory status.

The Committee must be consulted where this Treaty so provides. The Committee may be consulted in all cases in which the Commission considers this appropriate.

[F12. The Committee shall consist of forty-two members, appointed by the Council after consultation with the Commission.]

The Members of the Committee shall be appointed in their personal capacity for five years. Their appointment shall be renewable. They shall not be bound by any mandatory instructions.

The Scientific and Technical Committee shall each year elect its chairman and officers from among its Members.