Article 6
1.The Commission shall be assisted by a Committee known as the ‘MED Committee’, made up of representatives of the Member States and chaired by a representative of the Commission. A representative of the Bank shall take part in the proceedings, without the right to vote.
2.The representative of the Commission shall submit to the Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which the Chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty in the case of decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the Committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The Chairman shall not vote.
(3)(a)The Commission shall adopt the measures envisaged if they are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee.
(b)If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion of the Committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall, without delay, submit to the Council a proposal relating to the measures to be taken. The Council shall act by a qualified majority.
If, on the expiry of a period of three months from the date of referral to it, the Council has not acted, the proposed measures shall be adopted by the Commission.
4.The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure unanimously on the basis of a draft to be submitted to it by the Commission.