Section 1

The Management Board shall be composed of one member appointed by each Member State, and two members appointed by the Commission. All members shall have the right to vote. Each member of the Management Board shall have an alternate. That alternate shall represent the member in the member’s absence. Members of the Management Board and their alternates shall be appointed on the basis of their knowledge in the field of cybersecurity, taking into account their relevant managerial, administrative and budgetary skills. The Commission and the Member States shall make efforts to limit the turnover of their representatives on the Management Board, in order to ensure continuity of the Management Board’s work. The Commission and the Member States shall aim to achieve gender balance on the Management Board. The term of office of the members of the Management Board and their alternates shall be four years. That term shall be renewable. The Management Board shall: establish the general direction of the operation of ENISA and ensure that ENISA operates in accordance with the rules and principles laid down in this Regulation; it shall also ensure the consistency of ENISA’s work with activities conducted by the Member States as well as at Union level; adopt ENISA’s draft single programming document referred to in Article 24, before its submission to the Commission for an opinion; adopt ENISA’s single programming document, taking into account the Commission opinion; supervise the implementation of the multiannual and annual programming included in the single programming document; adopt the annual budget of ENISA and exercise other functions in respect of ENISA’s budget in accordance with Chapter IV; assess and adopt the consolidated annual report on ENISA’s activities, including the accounts and a description of how ENISA has met its performance indicators, submit both the annual report and the assessment thereof by 1 July of the following year, to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the Commission and to the Court of Auditors, and make the annual report public; adopt the financial rules applicable to ENISA in accordance with Article 32; adopt an anti-fraud strategy that is proportionate to the fraud risks, having regard to a cost-benefit analysis of the measures to be implemented; adopt rules for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest in respect of its members; ensure adequate follow-up to the findings and recommendations resulting from investigations of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the various internal or external audit reports and evaluations; adopt its rules of procedure, including rules for provisional decisions on the delegation of specific tasks, pursuant to Article 19(7); with respect to the staff of ENISA, exercise the powers conferred by the Staff Regulations of Officials (the ‘Staff Regulations of Officials’) and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union (the ‘Conditions of Employment of Other Servants’), laid down in Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1. on the appointing authority and on the Authority Empowered to Conclude a Contract of Employment (‘appointing authority powers’) in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article; adopt rules implementing the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 110 of the Staff Regulations of Officials; appoint the Executive Director and where relevant extend his or her term of office or remove him or her from office in accordance with Article 36; appoint an accounting officer, who may be the Commission’s accounting officer, who shall be wholly independent in the performance of his or her duties; take all decisions concerning the establishment of ENISA’s internal structures and, where necessary, the modification of those internal structures, taking into consideration ENISA’s activity needs and having regard to sound budgetary management; authorise the establishment of working arrangements with regard to Article 7; authorise the establishment or conclusion of working arrangements in accordance with Article 42. In accordance with Article 110 of the Staff Regulations of Officials, the Management Board shall adopt a decision based on Article 2(1) of the Staff Regulations of Officials and Article 6 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, delegating the relevant appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and determining the conditions under which that delegation of powers can be suspended. The Executive Director may sub-delegate those powers. Where exceptional circumstances so require, the Management Board may adopt a decision to temporarily suspend the delegation of appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and any appointing authority powers sub-delegated by the Executive Director and instead exercise them itself or delegate them to one of its members or to a staff member other than the Executive Director. The Management Board shall elect a Chairperson and a Deputy Chairperson from among its members, by a majority of two thirds of the members. Their terms of office shall be four years, which shall be renewable once. If, however, their membership of the Management Board ends at any time during their term of office, their term of office shall automatically expire on that date. The Deputy Chair shall replace the Chairperson ex officio if the Chairperson is unable to attend to his or her duties. Meetings of the Management Board shall be convened by its Chairperson. The Management Board shall hold at least two ordinary meetings a year. It shall also hold extraordinary meetings at the request of its Chairperson, at the request of the Commission, or at the request of at least one third of its members. The Executive Director shall take part in the meetings of the Management Board but shall not have the right to vote. Members of the ENISA Advisory Group may take part in the meetings of the Management Board at the invitation of the Chairperson, but shall not have the right to vote. The members of the Management Board and their alternates may be assisted at the meetings of the Management Board by advisers or experts, subject to the rules of procedure of the Management Board. ENISA shall provide the secretariat of the Management Board. The Management Board shall take its decisions by a majority of its members. A majority of two-thirds of the members of the Management Board shall be required for the adoption of the single programming document and of the annual budget and for the appointment, extension of the term of office or removal of the Executive Director. Each member shall have one vote. In the absence of a member, their alternate shall be entitled to exercise the member’s right to vote. The Chairperson of the Management Board shall take part in the voting. The Executive Director shall not take part in the voting. The Management Board’s rules of procedure shall establish more detailed voting arrangements, in particular the circumstances in which a member may act on behalf of another member.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.