Management Committee

Duties and responsibilities

1. The day-to-day management of the national institute is ensured by a management committee composed of the Director General and the heads of the main departments within the institute’s organizational structure.
2. The management committee exercises its duties and responsibilities within the limits of the competences proposed by the Director General and approved by the Board of Directors.
3. The management committee establishes the concrete actions necessary to achieve the objectives resulting from:
   • • the strategy of the national institute’s development programs;
     • the annual research and development program;
     • the income and expenditure budget;
     • the investment program;
     • the quality assurance system;
     • periodically analyzes the institute’s economic situation and, where the situation is favorable, may decide by mutual agreement with the trade union to index salaries by a percentage or a fixed amount equally for all institute employees, while ensuring that these expenses fall within the Income and Expenditure Budget approved for the current year;
     • where the estimate of income and expenditure two months in advance indicates potential financial deficits, establishes the necessary measures for the institute’s economic recovery and submits them to the Board of Directors for approval;
     • proposes the criteria for organizing competitions for filling the positions of directors and heads of departments/laboratories/units within the institute’s organizational structure; approves performance-related salaries after consultation with the trade union representative, and for research and development staff requests the opinion of the Scientific Council;
     • approves, based on the Scientific Council’s endorsement minutes, the list of projects to which the exemption from tax on income from salaries and salary-equivalent income applies;
     • other obligations.
4. The management committee meets every ten days and whenever the interests of the national institute so require. The meetings of the management committee are attended, as a permanent invitee, by a representative of the trade union, which has legal personality and is representative pursuant to a court decision, with the right to express an opinion recorded in the minutes of the meeting.