The following provisions shall apply for the second section:

• appointment shall be in a personal capacity and advice should be given to the Commission independently of any outside instruction,

• information obtained through the work of the group, its sections or working groups, shall not be divulged, where it is stated by the Commission to relate to a confidential matter,

• the term of office of members shall be two years, renewable. They shall remain in office until they are replaced, or until the expiry of their term of office,

• members who are no longer able to make an effective contribution to the work of the group, who resign or who breach the requirements set out in the first or second indent of the present Article or in Article 287 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, may be replaced for the remainder of their term,

• The names of the members shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.