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1. The accounting officer shall assume responsibility for the recovery orders duly drawn up. He shall exercise all due diligence to ensure that the resources due to the Centre are recovered at the due dates indicated in the recovery orders, and shall ensure that the rights of the Centre are safeguarded. The accounting officer shall inform the authorizing officer and the financial controller of any revenue not recovered within the time limits laid down.

2. If the authorizing officer waives the right to recover an established debt, he shall send beforehand a proposal for cancellation to the financial controller for his approval and to the accounting officer for information. The purpose of the approval of the financial controller shall be to establish that the waiver is in order and conforms with the principles of sound financial management referred to in Article 2. The proposal concerned shall be registered by the accounting officer.

If approval is withheld, the Management Board may, by a decision stating the full reasons therefor, and on its sole responsibility, overrule this refusal. This decision shall be final and binding; it shall be communicated for information to the financial controller. The Management Board shall inform the Court of Auditors of all such decisions within one month. When the financial controller finds that a document establishing a debt has not been drawn up, or that a sum due has not been recovered, he shall inform the Management Board thereof.