Article 14
United Kingdom
An accounting officer may be required to make good, in whole or in part, any damage suffered by the Agency as a result of serious misconduct on his/her part in the course of or in connection with the performance of his/her duties. He/she may in particular render himself liable by any of the following forms of misconduct:
- (a)
he/she loses or damages monies, assets and documents in his/her keeping;
- (b)
he/she wrongly alters bank accounts or postal giro accounts;
- (c)
he/she recovers or pays amounts which are not in conformity with the corresponding recovery or payment orders;
- (d)
he/she fails to collect revenue due.