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Article 14

United Kingdom

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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:

  1. (a)

    he/she loses or damages monies, assets and documents in his/her keeping;

  2. (b)

    he/she wrongly alters bank accounts or postal giro accounts;

  3. (c)

    he/she recovers or pays amounts which are not in conformity with the corresponding recovery or payment orders;

  4. (d)

    he/she fails to collect revenue due.