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2620th Council Meeting

HEADS OF STATE OR GOVERNMENT

Brussels, 5 November 2004

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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 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 Prime Minister Czech Republic: Mr Stanislav GROSS Prime Minister Denmark: Mr Prime Minister Germany: Mr Gerhard SCHRÖDER Federal Chancellor : Mr Juhan PARTS Prime Minister Greece: Mr Konstatinos KARAMANLIS Prime Minister : Mr José Luis RODRÍGUEZ ZAPATERO Prime Minister France: Mr President of the Republic : Mr , T.D. The Taoiseach Italy: Mr Prime Minister : Mr Tassos PAPADOPOULOS President of the Republic : Mr Indulis EMSIS Prime Minister Lithuania: Mr Algirdas Mykolas BRAZAUSKAS Prime Minister : Mr Jean-Claude JUNCKER Prime Minister, Ministre d'Etat, Minister for Finance : Mr Ferenc GYURCSÁNY Prime Minister : Hon. Lawrence GONZI, LL.D., M.P. Prime Minister Netherlands: Mr Jan Peter BALKENENDE Prime Minister : Mr Wolfgang SCHÜSSEL Federal Chancellor Poland: Mr Marek BELKA Prime Minister : Mr Pedro SANTANA LOPES Prime Minister : Mr Anton ROP Prime Minister

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Slovakia: Mr Mikuláš DZURINDA Prime Minister : Mr Matti VANHANEN Prime Minister Sweden: Mr Göran PERSSON Prime Minister : The Rt Hon Prime Minister

Commission: Mr 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 . 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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