Article 1

The representative of the Commission to the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency shall be the person occupying the following position and exercising the following functions:

1. (a)

   Principal adviser with special interest in public health, advising the Director-General of Directorate General for Health and Consumers on health strategy and supporting the Director of the Public Health and Risk Assessment Directorate.

The alternate representative shall be the person occupying the following position and exercising the following functions:

1. (b)

   Head of Unit ‘Health Strategy and Health Systems’, which includes the functions of determining and formulating public health policies and actions, including in the fields of pharmaceuticals, and providing overall direction of the activities within the unit on the basis of the work programme of the Directorate General for Health and Consumers and/or Directorate Public Health and Risk Assessment.