COUNCIL OF
THE EUROPEAN UNION EN
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PRESS RELEASE
2620th Council Meeting
HEADS OF STATE OR GOVERNMENT
Brussels, 5 November 2004
President Mr Jan Peter BALKENENDE Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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Main Results of the Council
The Council, meeting at the level of Heads of State or Government, and by common accord with Commission President-designate Barroso, adopted a Decision adopting an amended list of persons whom the Council intends to appoint as Members of the European Commission for the period from the date of appointment of the new Commission to 31 October 2009.
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CONTENTS 1
PARTICIPANTS...... 4
ITEMS DEBATED
APPOINTMENTS ...... 6
OTHER ITEMS APPROVED
None
1 Where declarations, conclusions or resolutions have been formally adopted by the Council, this is indicated in the heading for the item concerned and the text is placed between quotation marks. The documents whose references are given in the text are available on the Council's Internet site http://ue.eu.int. Acts adopted with statements for the Council minutes which may be released to the public are indicated by an asterisk; these statements are available on the abovementioned Council Internet site or may be obtained from the Press Office.
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PARTICIPANTS
The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were represented as follows:
Belgium: Mr Guy VERHOFSTADT Prime Minister Czech Republic: Mr Stanislav GROSS Prime Minister Denmark: Mr Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN Prime Minister Germany: Mr Gerhard SCHRÖDER Federal Chancellor Estonia: Mr Juhan PARTS Prime Minister Greece: Mr Konstatinos KARAMANLIS Prime Minister Spain: Mr José Luis RODRÍGUEZ ZAPATERO Prime Minister France: Mr Jacques CHIRAC President of the Republic Ireland: Mr Bertie AHERN, T.D. The Taoiseach Italy: Mr Silvio BERLUSCONI Prime Minister Cyprus: Mr Tassos PAPADOPOULOS President of the Republic Latvia: Mr Indulis EMSIS Prime Minister Lithuania: Mr Algirdas Mykolas BRAZAUSKAS Prime Minister Luxembourg: Mr Jean-Claude JUNCKER Prime Minister, Ministre d'Etat, Minister for Finance Hungary: Mr Ferenc GYURCSÁNY Prime Minister Malta: Hon. Lawrence GONZI, LL.D., M.P. Prime Minister Netherlands: Mr Jan Peter BALKENENDE Prime Minister Austria: Mr Wolfgang SCHÜSSEL Federal Chancellor Poland: Mr Marek BELKA Prime Minister Portugal: Mr Pedro SANTANA LOPES Prime Minister Slovenia: Mr Anton ROP Prime Minister
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Slovakia: Mr Mikuláš DZURINDA Prime Minister Finland: Mr Matti VANHANEN Prime Minister Sweden: Mr Göran PERSSON Prime Minister United Kingdom: The Rt Hon Tony BLAIR Prime Minister
Commission: Mr Romano PRODI President Mr José Manuel DURÃO BARROSO President designate
General Secretariat of the Council: Mr Javier SOLANA Secretary-General/High Representative for the CFSP
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ITEMS DEBATED
APPOINTMENTS
The Council, by common accord with Mr José Manuel DURÃO BARROSO, nominee for President of the Commission, adopted a Decision containing the list of persons whom the Council intends to appoint as Members of the Commission of the European Communities for the period from the date of appointment of the new Commission to 31 October 2009. This decision, which adopts an amended list of Commission nominees, repeals and replaces Decision 2004/642/EC, Euratom 1 adopted by the Council on 13 September 2004.
The President and the other Members of the Commission nominated will be submitted as a body for a vote of approval by the European Parliament. Subsequently, they will be appointed by the Council.
The list of Commission nominees is as follows:
Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA AMANN
Mr Jacques BARROT
Mr Joe BORG
Mr Stavros DIMAS
Ms Benita FERRERO-WALDNER
Mr Ján FIGEĽ
Ms Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Mr Franco FRATTINI
Ms Dalia GRYBAUSKAITĖ
Ms Danuta HÜBNER
Mr Siim KALLAS
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Mr László KOVÁCS
Ms Neelie KROES
Mr Markos KYPRIANOU
Mr Peter MANDELSON
Mr Charlie McCREEVY
Mr Louis MICHEL
Mr Andris PIEBALGS
Mr Janez POTOČNIK
Ms Viviane REDING
Mr Olli REHN
Mr Vladimír ŠPIDLA
Mr Günter VERHEUGEN
Ms Margot WALLSTRÖM.
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OTHER ITEMS APPROVED
None
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