Council Decision of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure

• (i) Re Article 19(7): ‘If a member of the Council considers that a draft procedural decision submitted to Coreper for adoption in accordance with Article 19(7) raises a question of substance, the draft decision will be submitted to the Council.’

[^E0021]: These provisions are without prejudice to the role of the Economic and Financial Committee as laid down in Article 134 of the TFEU and to existing Council Decisions thereon (OJ L 358, 31.12.1998, p. 109 and OJ L 5, 9.1.1999, p. 71).

[^E0022]: See statement (j) set out below:

• (j) Re Article 21: ‘Reports from working parties and any other documents used as a basis for Coreper's discussions should be sent to delegations in time to allow for their examination.’

[^E0023]: See statement (k) set out below:

• (k) Re Article 22: ‘The Council Legal Service has also been instructed to provide assistance to Member States responsible for an initiative within the meaning of Article 76(b) of the TFEU for the purpose inter alia of checking the quality of drafting of such initiatives if that assistance is requested by the Member State concerned.’

See statement (l) set out below:

• (l) Re Article 22: ‘Members of the Council will comment on proposals for official codification of legislative texts within 30 working days of the circulation of such proposals by the General Secretariat. Members of the Council will ensure that those provisions of a proposal for the recasting of legislative texts which have been taken from the preceding act without substantive amendment are examined in accordance with the principles established for examination of codification proposals.’

[^E0024]: OJ C 73, 17.3.1999, p. 1.

[^E0025]: Paragraph 1 and the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 reproduce Article 240(2) of the TFEU.

[^E0026]: This configuration is established by Article 16(6), second subparagraph, of the TEU.

[^E0027]: This configuration is established by Article 16(6), third subparagraph, of the TEU.

[^E0028]: Including budget.

[^E0029]: Including civil protection.

[^E0030]: Including tourism.

[^E0031]: Including audiovisual affairs.

[^E0032]: See statement (m) set out below:

• (m) Re Annex I, second paragraph: ‘The Presidency will organise Council agendas by grouping together related agenda items, in order to facilitate attendance by the relevant national representatives, particularly where a given Council configuration has to deal with clearly distinguishable sets of topics.’

[^E0033]: OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.

[^E0034]: See statement (n) set out below:

• (n) Re Annex IV, paragraph 1(h): ‘The Council confirms that present practice whereby the texts serving as a basis for its deliberations are drawn up in all the languages will continue to apply.’

[^E0035]: See statement (o) set out below:

• (o) Re Annex VI, paragraph A.4(a)(ii): ‘The Council would point out that, in the cases provided for in the Treaties where an act is not applicable to or in all Member States, it is necessary to make clear its territorial application in the reasons given for and content of the act concerned.’