Highlights – Hearings of Executive Director candidates for eu-LISA and EUDA – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source: European Parliament

On 20 May the LIBE committee will hold two hearings to assess the short-listed candidates for the positions of Executive Directors of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA), and Executive Director of the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), respectively.

The Executive Directors of eu-LISA and the EU Drugs Agency each leads and manages the agencies, with overall responsibility for their operations, and they are accountable to the Management Board. Each Executive Director is appointed for a period of a five-year period, with the possibility of a single renewal.

The Executive Director will be appointed by the Management Board on the basis of a short-list of candidates proposed by the European Commission, following the selection process.

Before appointment, the candidates proposed by the Commission shall be invited to make a statement before the competent committee or committees of the European Parliament and answer questions from the committee members. After hearing the statement and the responses, the European Parliament shall adopt an opinion setting out its view and may indicate a preferred candidate.