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The Management Board shall: adopt a strategy for Europol, which shall include benchmarks to measure whether the objectives set have been reached; oversee the Director’s performance including the implementation of Management Board decisions; take any decision or implementing measures in accordance with this Decision; adopt the implementing rules applicable to Europol staff, on a proposal from the Director and after seeking agreement from the Commission; adopt the financial regulation and appoint the accounting officer in conformity with Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72. , after consulting the Commission; establish the internal audit function and appoint its auditing staff, who shall be members of Europol staff. The Management Board shall adopt further implementing rules concerning the internal audit function. Those implementing rules should, in particular, cover selection, dismissal, tasks, duties, powers and safeguards for the independence of the function. The internal audit function shall be accountable solely to the Management Board and shall have access to all documentation necessary to the performance of its duties; adopt a list of at least three candidates for the post of Director and the Deputy Directors for submission to the Council; be responsible for the performance of any other tasks assigned to it by the Council, in particular in provisions implementing this Decision; establish its rules of procedure, including provisions providing for the independence of the Secretariat.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.