Article 45

Composition of the Compliance Board and voting rules

1. The Compliance Board shall be composed of one representative of each Member State and one representative of the Commission. The term of office of the members of the Compliance Board shall be 4 years and shall be renewable.

2. The representatives of the Union agencies or bodies and of third countries or international organisations may on an exceptional basis be invited to attend the meetings of the Compliance Board as observers, as follows:

(a) as regarding the representatives of Union Agencies or bodies, for matters regarding tasks or aspects of interest to those Union Agencies or bodies;

(b) as regards the representatives of third countries or international organisations, for matters directly related to them, notably regarding assets of space infrastructure which they own or are located on their territory, or for matters directly related to compliance of third country space operators and international organisations, with this Regulation;

3. The arrangements regarding the conditions of participation of the representatives of third countries or international organisations referred to in paragraph 2 shall be laid down in the relevant agreements and shall comply with the rules of procedure of the Compliance Board.

4. The decisions of the Compliance Board shall be reached by consensus of all its members with voting rights. If consensus cannot be reached, the Compliance Board shall take decisions based on qualified majority voting, in accordance with Article 16 TEU. The representative of the Commission shall not vote. The Chair of the Compliance Board shall sign, on behalf of the Registration Board, the decisions adopted by the latter.

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