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  "legislation": "eur/2014/642",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 642/2014 of 16 June 2014 establishing the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-642",
  "path": "annex/I/article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Tasks of the Governing Board",
  "text": "The Governing Board shall have overall responsibility for the strategic orientation and the operations of the S2R Joint Undertaking and shall supervise the implementation of its activities. In particular, the Governing Board shall carry out the following tasks:\n(a) adopt the S2R Master Plan and any proposal to modify it;\n(b) adopt the S2R Joint Undertaking's annual work plan and the corresponding expenditure estimates, as proposed by the Executive Director after having consulted the Scientific Committee and the States Representatives Group;\n(c) define the detailed list of criteria to select associated members in accordance with Article 4 and assess, accept or reject applications for new membership on that basis;\n(d) decide on the final composition of the Governing Board, in particular by selecting the representatives of associated members, other than those fulfilling the criteria in Article 1(2), on the basis of a proposal from each Steering Committee;\n(e) decide on the termination of the membership in the S2R Joint Undertaking of any Member that does not fulfil its obligations and on the conditions of this termination;\n(f) approve the membership agreements referred to in Article 3(2) after having consulted, where appropriate, an ad hoc advisory group;\n(g) adopt the financial rules of the Joint Undertaking in accordance with Article 5 of this Regulation;\n(h) adopt the S2R Joint Undertaking's annual budget, as proposed by the Executive Director, including the staff establishment plan indicating the number of temporary posts by function group and by grade as well as the number of contract staff and seconded national experts expressed in full-time equivalents;\n(i) exercise the appointing authority powers in respect of the staff, in accordance with Article 6(2) of this Regulation;\n(j) appoint, dismiss, extend the term of office of, provide guidance to and monitor the performance of the Executive Director;\n(k) develop a common model of rules of procedure for the Steering Committees;\n(l) approve the organisation chart upon recommendation of the Executive Director;\n(m) approve the annual activity report, including the corresponding expenditure;\n(n) arrange, as appropriate, for the establishment of an internal audit capability of the S2R Joint Undertaking;\n(o) develop procedures for open and transparent calls and approve the calls as well as, where appropriate, the related rules for submission, evaluation, selection, award and review procedures;\n(p) approve the list of actions selected for funding;\n(q) where appropriate, set up working groups referred to in Article 14 in addition to the bodies of the S2R Joint Undertaking;\n(r) where appropriate, establish implementing rules in line with Article 6(3) of this Regulation, as well as rules on the secondment of national experts to the S2R Joint Undertaking and on the use of trainees in line with Article 7 of this Regulation;\n(s) where appropriate, submit to the Commission any request to amend this Regulation proposed by any member of the S2R Joint Undertaking;\n(t) decide on proposals to the Commission on the extension or the winding up of the Joint Undertaking;\n(u) exercise any task that is not specifically allocated to one of the bodies of the S2R Joint Undertaking, which it may assign to one of those bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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