1.8.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 205/11 COUNCIL DECISION of 22 July 2013 renewing the membership of the Scientific and Technical Committee and repealing the Decision of 13 November 2012 appointing the members of the Scientific and Technical Committee (2013/412/Euratom) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 134(2) thereof, After consulting the European Commission, Whereas: (1) Article 134(2) of the Treaty, as amended by Article 11 of the Act of Accession of Croatia, provides that the Scientific and Technical Committee is to consist of 42 members. ) (2) By the Decision of 13 November 2012 ('), the Council appointed the members of the Scientific and Technical HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Committee for the period from 23 January 2013 to 22 January 2018. However, by virtue of Article 26(2) of the Act of Accession of Croatia, the membership of the Scientific and Technical Committee is to be completely renewed upon Croatia’s accession. Therefore, new members of the Committee should be appointed and the Decision of 13 November 2012 should be repealed. In order to make full use of the wide range of expertise required to fulfil its tasks, the Scientific and Technical Committee may, subject to its internal rules, call on alternates to the members to participate in its meetings, The following persons are hereby appointed members of the Scientific and Technical Committee for the period from 25 July 2013 to 24 July 2018: Rosa ALBA Jens-Peter LYNOV Vanni ANTONI Gabriel MARBACH Kathrin APEL José MARQUES Evgenia BENOVA Emilio MINGUEZ Bernard BONIN Martin MURRAY Michel BOURGUIGNON Jerzy Wiktor NIEWODNICZANSKI Frank BRISCOE Milan PATRIK Panicos DEMETRIADES Pavol PAVLO Daniela DIACONU Rainer SALOMAA Tony DONNE Jean-Paul SAMAIN James DRAKE Edouard SINNER Juan ESPOSITO Borut SMODIS Janos GADO Thomas SUNN PEDERSEN Carlos HIDALGO VERA Ton¢i TADIC Kyriakos HIZANIDIS lIoan URSU Sue ION Eugenijus USPURAS Eugene KENNEDY Theo VAN RENTERGEM Jan Leen KLOOSTERMAN Carlos VARANDAS Wolfgang LIEBERT Franck-Peter WEISS Peter LISKA Roman ZAGORSKI Merle LUST Sandor ZOLETNIK (") Council Decision of 13 November 2012 appointing the members of the Scientific and Technical Committee (O] C 360, 22.11.2012, p. 2).