Article 5U.K.Functions of the Management Board
1.The Management Board shall:
(a)provide the strategic orientations for EU-OSHA's activities;
(b)adopt each year, by a majority of two thirds of members with the right to vote and in accordance with Article 6, EU-OSHA's programming document, containing EU-OSHA's multiannual work programme and its annual work programme for the following year;
(c)adopt, by a majority of two thirds of the members with the right to vote, EU-OSHA's annual budget and exercise other functions in respect of that budget pursuant to Chapter III;
(d)adopt a consolidated annual activity report together with an assessment of EU-OSHA's activities, submit them by 1 July each year to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors and make the consolidated annual activity report public;
(e)adopt the financial rules applicable to EU-OSHA in accordance with Article 17;
(f)adopt an anti-fraud strategy, proportionate to fraud risks taking into account the costs and benefits of the measures to be implemented;
(g)adopt rules for the prevention and management of conflicts of interests in respect of its members and independent experts, as well as of seconded national experts and other staff not employed by EU-OSHA as referred to in Article 20;
(h)adopt and regularly update the communication and dissemination plans based on an analysis of needs and reflect this in EU-OSHA's programming document;
(i)adopt its rules of procedure;
(j)exercise, in accordance with paragraph 2, with respect to EU-OSHA's staff, the powers of the Appointing Authority conferred by the Staff Regulations and the Authority Empowered to Conclude a Contract of Employment conferred by the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants (the ‘appointing authority powers’);
(k)adopt appropriate implementing rules to give effect to the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants in accordance with Article 110 of the Staff Regulations;
(l)appoint and, where relevant, extend the term of office of the Executive Director or remove him or her from office, in accordance with Article 19;
(m)appoint an Accounting Officer, subject to the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, who shall be fully independent in the performance of his or her duties;
(n)adopt the rules of procedure of the Executive Board;
(o)monitor adequate follow-up to findings and recommendations stemming from the internal or external audit reports and evaluations, as well as from investigations of the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF);
(p)authorise the establishment of cooperation arrangements with the competent authorities of third countries and with international organisations in accordance with Article 30.
2.The Management 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 relevant appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and setting out the conditions under which this delegation of powers can be suspended. The Executive Director shall be authorised to sub-delegate those powers.
Where exceptional circumstances so require, the Management Board may temporarily suspend the delegation of the appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and those sub-delegated by the Executive Director. In such cases the Management Board shall delegate them, for a limited period, to one of the representatives of the Commission whom it nominates or to a staff member other than the Executive Director.