Amendment of regulation 12
7. For regulation 12 (composition of the special negotiating body) substitute—
“Composition of the special negotiating body
12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the special negotiating body shall be constituted in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In each Member State in which employees of a Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings are employed to work, those employees shall elect or appoint one member of the special negotiating body for each 10% (or fraction of 10%) which those employees represent of the total number of employees of the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings employed in those Member States.
(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a special negotiating body constituted before 5th June 2011.
(4) The special negotiating body shall inform the central management, local managements and the European social partner organisations of the composition of the special negotiating body and of the date they propose to start the negotiations.”.