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Tasks of the Management Board In the common interest of the institutions, the Management Board shall:

(a) acting by a qualified majority, approve the rules governing the running of the Office;

(b) acting by a simple majority on a proposal from the Head of the Office, approve the organisational structure of the Office;

(c) acting by a qualified majority on proposals from the Head of the Office, in compliance with the Agreement to be concluded between the Secretaries-General of the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Registrar of the Court of Justice, the Secretaries-General of the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions and the representative of the European Ombudsman on the common principles for a shared selection and recruitment policy and the principles for managing reserve lists, together with the relevant provisions of the Staff Regulations, approve the principles governing the selection policy to be followed by the Office;

(d) acting by a simple majority under the budget procedure on the basis of a draft drawn up by the Head of the Office, draw up an estimate of the Office's revenue and expenditure and send it to the Commission with a view to the drawing-up of the estimate of the Commission's revenue and expenditure; at the same time it shall propose to the Commission any adjustments to the Office's establishment plan that it deems necessary;

(e) acting by a simple majority, approve the type of and the rates chargeable for additional services that the Office may perform against payment for the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and the conditions under which the Office may perform them;

(f) acting unanimously on a proposal from the Head of the Office, approve the work programme, and in particular the scheduling of and timetable for competitions to be organised. The work programme shall also cover services not relating to open competitions organised for the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies;

(g) acting by a qualified majority on the basis of a draft prepared by the Head of the Office, approve an annual management report covering all individual revenue and expenditure headings relating to work performed and services provided by the Office. Before 1 May each year, it shall send the institutions the report on the preceding financial year, drawn up in the light of the analytical accounts;

(h) acting by a simple majority, approve a fair, balanced breakdown of the variable and direct costs to be charged for analytical purposes to the individual institutions and update it every three years;

(i) acting by a simple majority on the basis of recruitment needs, agree on rules whereby each institution is to make a suitable number of selection board members, examiners and invigilator available to the Office;

(j) acting by a simple majority, approve the conditions under which the Office may grant agreement to the institutions to organise their own competitions in accordance with Article 2(1) of the Decision of the institutions.