In certain cases governed by the Rules of Procedure, the Community Patent Court may sit in an enlarged configuration, or be constituted by a single Judge.

Yes, the minister offered me a seat on the committee while I was in Saudi Arabia, but she was told that it could be any committee except the one I had chosen.

(b) the Association Committee shall, no later than six months after the entry into force of this Agreement, establish a list of at least five individuals who are not nationals of either Party, and who are willing and able to serve as arbitrators and be identified as chairperson of arbitration panels in financial services. The Association Committee shall ensure that the list always contains five individuals at any point in time. Those individuals shall have expertise or experience in financial services law or practice, which may include the regulation of financial institutions, be independent, serve in their individual capacities and not ...[+++]be affiliated with, nor take instructions from, any Party or organisation and shall comply with the Code of Conduct set out in Annex XVI. Such list may be amended every three years.

1. In addition to its functions provided for in Article 53(1), the Contact Committee may also meet as a Regulatory Committee within the meaning of Article 5 of Decision 1999/468/EC(9) to assist the Commission in regard to the technical modifications to be made to this Directive in the following areas:

Based on the successful experiences conducted in several Member States, the Commission will encourage the inclusion of a minimum ratio of foreign researchers in such committees, as well as a proper gender balance.

The first change empowered standing committees to sit jointly with another standing committee; [125] other changes authorized the new Standing Committee on House Management to prepare lists of “Members at Large” for each of the committees in each of the envelopes who could act on subcommittees and as substitutes, allowed the Whips to select substitutes from independent Members listed as “Members at Large”, and provided that standing committees in four of the five envelopes could create subcommittees and draw the membership from members of committees in the same envelope.