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1. The Management Board shall, in particular:

(a) provide the strategic orientations and oversee the Authority’s activities;

(b) adopt, by a majority of two-thirds of members with the right to vote, the annual budget of the Authority and exercise other functions in respect of the Authority’s budget pursuant to Chapter IV;

(c) assess and adopt the consolidated annual activity report on the Authority’s activities, including an overview of the fulfilment of its tasks, and submit it by 1 July each year to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors and make the consolidated annual activity report public;

(d) adopt the financial rules applicable to the Authority in accordance with Article 29;

(e) adopt an anti-fraud strategy, proportionate to fraud risks, taking into account the costs and benefits of the measures to be implemented;

(f) adopt rules for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest in respect of its members and independent experts, as well as the members of the Stakeholder Group and of the working groups and panels of the Authority referred to in Article 16(2), as well as of seconded national experts and other staff not employed by the Authority as referred to in Article 33, and shall publish annually on its website the declarations of interests of the Management Board members;

(g) adopt and regularly update the communication and dissemination plans referred to in Article 36(3), based on an analysis of needs;

(h) adopt its rules of procedure;

(i) adopt the rules of procedure for mediation pursuant to Article 13;

(j) set up working groups and expert panels pursuant to Article 16(2) and adopt their rules of procedure;

(k) exercise, in accordance with paragraph 2, with respect to the staff of the Authority, the powers of the Appointing Authority conferred by the Staff Regulations and the Authority Empowered to Conclude a Contract of Employment conferred by the Conditions of Employment (the ‘appointing authority power’);

(l) adopt implementing rules to give effect to the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment in accordance with Article 110 of the Staff Regulations;

(m) establish, where appropriate, an internal audit capacity;

(n) appoint and, where relevant, extend the term of office of the Executive Director or remove him or her from office in accordance with Article 31;

(o) appoint an Accounting Officer, subject to the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment, who shall be fully independent in the performance of his or her duties;

(p) determine the procedure for selecting the members and alternates of the Stakeholder Group set up in accordance with Article 23 and appoint those members and alternates;

(q) ensure an adequate follow-up to findings and recommendations stemming from the internal or external audit reports and evaluations, as well as from investigations from OLAF;

(r) take all decisions on the establishment of the Authority’s internal committees or other bodies and, where necessary, their modification, taking into consideration the Authority’s activity needs and having regard to sound financial management;

(s) approve the Authority’s draft single programming document referred to in Article 24 before its submission to the Commission for its opinion;

(t) adopt, having received the opinion of the Commission, the Authority’s single programming document by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the Management Board who are entitled to vote and in accordance with Article 24.

2. The Management Board shall adopt, in accordance with Article 110 of the Staff Regulations, a decision based on Article 2(1) of the Staff Regulations and Article 6 of the Conditions of Employment, delegating relevant appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and setting out the conditions under which this delegation of powers can be suspended. The Executive Director shall be authorised to sub-delegate those powers.

3. Where exceptional circumstances so require, the Management Board may, by way of decision, temporarily suspend the delegation of the appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and those sub-delegated by the Executive Director and exercise them itself or delegate them to one of its members or to a staff member other than the Executive Director.