http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/642/article/6Council Regulation (EU) No 642/2014 of 16 June 2014 establishing the Shift2Rail Joint UndertakingCouncil Regulation (EU) No 642/2014Council Regulation (EU) No 642/2014 of 16 June 2014 establishing the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking2020-12-10King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014R0642texttext/xmlen2014-06-16 Staff Article 6 1 The Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of other Servants of the European Union as laid down by Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 and the rules adopted by agreement between the institutions of the Union for the purpose of giving effect to those Staff Regulations and Conditions of Employment of Other Servants shall apply to the staff employed by the S2R Joint Undertaking. 2 The Governing Board shall exercise, with respect to the staff of the S2R Joint Undertaking, the powers conferred by the Staff Regulations on the Appointing Authority and by the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants on the Authority Empowered to Conclude Contracts of Employment (‘the appointing authority powers’). The Governing Board shall adopt, in accordance with Article 110 of the Staff Regulations, a decision based on Article 2(1) of the Staff Regulations and on Article 6 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants delegating the relevant appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and defining the conditions under which this delegation of powers can be suspended. The Executive Director is authorised to sub-delegate those powers. Where exceptional circumstances so require, the Governing Board may, by way of a decision, temporarily suspend the delegation of the appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and those sub-delegated by the latter and exercise them itself or delegate them to one of its members or to a staff member of the S2R Joint Undertaking other than the Executive Director. 3 The Governing Board shall adopt the appropriate implementing rules of the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants in accordance with Article 110 of the Staff Regulations. 4 The staff resources shall be determined in the staff establishment plan of the S2R Joint Undertaking indicating the number of temporary posts by function group and by grade and the number of contract staff expressed in full-time equivalents, in line with its annual budget. 5 The staff of the S2R Joint Undertaking shall consist of temporary staff and contract staff. 6 All costs related to the staff shall be borne by the S2R Joint Undertaking. Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities and instituting special measures temporarily applicable to officials of the Commission (OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1).