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1. The Chairperson shall convene the meetings of the Management Board.

2. The Executive Director shall take part in the deliberations of the Management Board.

3. The Management Board shall hold at least two ordinary meetings a year. In addition, it shall meet on the initiative of its Chairperson, or at the request of the Commission or of at least one-third of its members.

4. The Management Board may invite any person whose opinion may be relevant for the discussion to attend its meeting as a non-voting observer. Two representatives of the JPSG shall be invited to attend two ordinary meetings of the Management Board per year as non-voting observers to discuss the following matters of political interest:

(a) the consolidated annual activity report referred to in Article 11(1), point (c), for the previous year;

(b) the single programming document referred to in Article 12 for the following year and the annual budget;

(c) JPSG written questions and answers;

(d) external relations and partnership matters.

The Management Board, together with the representatives of the JPSG, may determine other matters of political interest to be discussed at the meetings referred to in the first subparagraph.

5. The members and the alternate members of the Management Board may, subject to its rules of procedure, be assisted at the meetings by advisers or experts.

6. Europol shall provide the secretariat for the Management Board.