(4) Where a panel consists of one member and the member is at any time unable to dispose of a matter that is before the panel, the President may authorize another member to consider and dispose of the matter.

Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the Commission, Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Christos Stylianides, Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, ...[+++]Youth and Sport, and Julian King, Commissioner for Security Union, made the following statement:

When I took up office, I said that I would not be the first Commissioner to work on the file but that I hoped to be the last.

We don't know who the Chief Commissioner or the Deputy Chief Commissioner will be; we don't know who the first three commissioners will be, but we know that the Governor in Council and the Minister will be the only ones to decide on the first two and the next three, who, together will appoint a fourth commissioner.

Participating as the first Commissioner in such a session, Mr van den Broek recalled EU assistance to the special war crime tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (financial assistance of ECU 3 million each, protection and support of witnesses, legal counsel, promotion of public awareness, and the establishment of databases).

At the beginning of 1986, when Spain joined the Community, Abel Matutes became the first European Commissioner to be explicitly given responsibility for policy on small and medium sized enterprises.