The committee hears the rapporteur(s) appointed to examine the application for inclusion on the list.
It may request any information or documents and may hold any useful hearings, including that of the applicant.
The external rapporteurs and the alternate members, when they are not sitting in place of their full members, take part, in an advisory capacity, in the Committee’s deliberations on the applications for which they have examined the files.
When the committee decides to include a candidate on the list, the interested party is notified of this decision, which takes effect on the first day of the calendar month following the date of notification.