Article 6 Operation of the Office

The Director-General of the Office shall exercise, with regard to the staff of the Office, the powers of the appointing authority and of the authority empowered to conclude contracts of employment delegated to him. He shall be permitted to sub-delegate those powers. In accordance with the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, he shall lay down the conditions and detailed arrangements for recruitment, in particular as to the length of contracts and their renewal.

After consulting the Supervisory Committee, the Director-General shall send the Director-General for budgets a preliminary draft budget to be entered in the annex concerning the Office to the Commission section of the general budget of the European Union.

Except for the implementation of appropriations relating to the members of the Supervisory Committee, the Director-General shall act as authorising officer by delegation for implementation of the appropriations entered in the annex concerning the Office to the Commission section of the general budget of the European Union and the appropriations entered under the anti-fraud budget headings for which powers are delegated to him or her in the internal rules on implementation of the general budget. He or she shall be permitted to sub-delegate his or her powers to staff members subject to the Staff Regulations of Officials or Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the Union in accordance with the those internal rules.

Commission decisions concerning its internal organisation shall apply to the Office in so far as they are compatible with the provisions concerning the Office adopted by the Union legislator and with this Decision.