12.6.2007 Official Journal of the European Union L 150/5 (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 8 June 2007 setting up an expert group on demographic issues (2007/397EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 140 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Article 140 of the Treaty establishing the European Community provides that the Commission shall encourage cooperation between the Member States and facilitate the coordination of their action in all social policy fields. (2 In accordance with the Commission Communication of 12 October 2006 entitled ‘The demographic future of Europe, from challenge to opportunity’, the Commission has decided to enlist the assistance of a group of government experts. (3)  The group must contribute to the development of policies for adapting to demographic change. (4)  Care will be taken to ensure complementarity and an absence of overlap with the activities of other groups and committees dealing with demographic issues, including the Employment Committee, the Social Protection Committee, the Economic Policy Committee, the Economic and Financial Committee, the Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men and the High-Level Group on Gender Main- streaming. The Commission will inform these bodies of the activities of the expert group on demographic issues. (5)  The group must be composed of government represen- tatives of the Member States and of independent experts. (6)  The expert group on demographic issues should therefore be set up and its terms of reference and structures defined, HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: Article 1 An ‘expert group on demographic issues’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘the group) shall be set up under the auspices of the Commission for a period of five years (renewable). Article 2 Task The group’s task shall be to advise the Commission on the monitoring of demographic change and on the implementation of the policy guidelines set out in the Commission Communi- cation of 12 October 2006 on the demographic future of Europe (COM(2006) 571). More specifically, the group shall: — assist the Commission in drawing conclusions from the research results, in identifying relevant data for the demo- graphy reports and in fostering exchanges of good practice for which the Demographic Forum will provide a platform. It shall take into account the results of the numerous actions and research projects undertaken by the European insti- tutions on these subjects,