The Eurojust Administrative Director is generally responsible for overseeing the day-to-day administration of Eurojust and staff management, and for ensuring the necessary administrative support is provided to facilitate Eurojust’s operational work. Other specific functions of the Administrative Director include:

• ensuring the President and Vice-Presidents receive the necessary administrative support to carry out their duties;

• implementing the decisions adopted by the Eurojust College and Executive Board;

• preparing Eurojust’s programming document and submitting it to the Executive Board for review;

• implementing the programming document and reporting to the Executive Board and College on its implementation;

• preparing the annual report on Eurojust’s activities and presenting it to the Executive Board for review and to the College for adoption;

• preparing an action plan to follow up the conclusions of internal or external audit reports, evaluations and investigations, and reporting on progress twice a year to the College, Executive Board, European Commission and EDPS;

• preparing an anti-fraud strategy for Eurojust and presenting it to the Executive Board for adoption;

• preparing draft financial rules applicable to Eurojust;

• preparing Eurojust’s draft statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure and implementing its annual budget;

• preparing a draft proposal for the budget, for review by the Executive Board; and

• appointing authority or concluding contracts of employment of other servants.