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1. The Governing Board shall use a consensual approach in its discussions. A vote shall be held if the members of the Governing Board fail to achieve consensus.

2. If the Governing Board fails to achieve consensus on a matter, it shall take its decisions by a majority of at least 75 % of the votes of all its members, the representatives of the Commission constituting a single member for that purpose. An absent member of the Governing Board may delegate his or her vote to his or her alternate or, in the absence of his or her alternate, to another member. No member of the Governing Board shall represent more than one other member.

3. Decisions of the Governing Board on the joint actions and their management as referred to in points (f) and (g) of Article 13(3) shall be taken as follows:

(a) decisions to allocate funds from the Union budget to joint actions as referred to in point (f) of Article 13(3) and decisions to include such joint actions in the annual work programme shall be taken in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article;

(b) decisions relating to the description of joint actions and laying down conditions for their implementation referred in point (g) of Article 13(3) shall be taken by participating Members States and the Commission, subject to the right to vote of the members being proportional to their respective contributions to that joint action, calculated in accordance with the methodology adopted pursuant to point (x) of Article 13(3).

4. For decisions which are taken under points (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (k), (l), (p), (q), (t), (u), (w), (x) and (y) of Article 13(3), the Commission shall have 26 % of the total votes within the Governing Board.

5. For decisions other than those referred to in point (b) of paragraph 3 and in paragraph 4, each Member State and the Union shall have one vote. The vote of the Union shall be cast jointly by the two representatives of the Commission.

6. The Chairperson shall take part in the voting.