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1. The Director shall be engaged as a temporary agent of the BEREC Office in accordance with point (a) of Article 2 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants.

2. The Director shall be appointed by the Management Board, following an open and transparent selection procedure, on the basis of merit, management, administrative and budgetary skills and the skills and experience relevant to electronic communications networks and services. The list of candidates shall not be proposed by the Chairperson or by a Deputy Chairperson alone. The rules of procedure of the Management Board shall set out in detail the arrangements governing a procedure to shortlist the number of eligible candidates and a voting procedure.

3. For the purpose of concluding the contract with the Director, the BEREC Office shall be represented by the Chairperson of the Management Board.

4. Before appointment, the candidate selected by the Management Board shall be invited to make a statement before the competent committee of the European Parliament and to answer questions put by its members.

5. The term of office of the Director shall be five years. By the end of that period, the Chairperson of the Management Board shall carry out an assessment that takes into account an evaluation of the Director’s performance and the BEREC Office’s tasks and challenges. That assessment shall be submitted to the European Parliament and to the Council.

6. The Management Board, taking into account the assessment referred to in paragraph 5, may extend the Director’s term of office once, for no more than five years.

7. The Management Board shall inform the European Parliament if it intends to extend the Director’s term of office. Within one month before any such extension, the Director may be invited to make a statement before the competent committee of the European Parliament and to answer questions put by its members.

8. A Director whose term of office has been extended shall not participate in another selection procedure for the same post after the end of the cumulative period.

9. Where the term of office is not extended, the Director shall, upon a decision of the Management Board, remain in office beyond the expiry of the initial term of office until the appointment of a successor.

10. The Director may be removed from office only upon a decision of the Management Board acting on a proposal from a member.

11. The Management Board shall reach decisions on appointment, extension of the term of office or removal from office of the Director on the basis of a vote of a two-thirds majority of its members.