
Article 1 

1. An executive agency for the management of the Community programme in the field of public health (the Agency), the statute of which is laid down in Regulation (EC) No 58/2003, is hereby established.
2. The name of the Agency shall be the ‘Executive Agency for the Public Health Programme’.
Article 2 
The Agency shall be located in Luxembourg.
Article 3 
The Agency is hereby established for a period beginning on 1 January 2005 and ending on 31 December 2010.
Article 4 

1. Under the Community programme in the field of public health established by Decision No 1786/2002/EC (framework Decision), the Agency is hereby entrusted with implementing the tasks concerning Community aid under the programme, except for programme evaluation, monitoring of legislation, or any other action which could come under the exclusive competence of the Commission. In particular, it is hereby entrusted with the following tasks:
(a) managing all the phases in the lifetime of specific projects, in the context of implementing the programme on public health, on the basis of Decision No 1786/2002/EC and of the work plan provided for in that Decision and adopted by the Commission, and the necessary checks to that end, taking the relevant decisions where the Commission has empowered it to do so;
(b) adopting the instruments of budget execution for revenue and expenditure and carrying out, where the Commission has empowered it to do so, all the operations necessary for the management of the Community programme and, in particular, those linked to the award of contracts and grants;
(c) providing logistical, scientific and technical support, in particular by organising technical meetings (management of expert working groups), preparatory studies, seminars or conferences.
2. The Commission decision delegating authority to the Agency shall set out in detail all the tasks entrusted to the Agency. It shall be forwarded to the Committee for Executive Agencies by way of information.
Article 5 

1. The Agency shall be managed by a Steering Committee and a Director appointed by the Commission.
2. The members of the Steering Committee shall be appointed for two years.
3. The Director shall be appointed for four years.
Article 6 
The Agency shall receive a grant entered in the general budget of the European Union and taken from the funds allocated to the programme on public health.
Article 7 
The Agency shall be subject to supervision by the Commission and shall report regularly on progress in implementing the programmes for which it is responsible, in accordance with the arrangements and at the intervals stipulated in the instrument of delegation.
Article 8 
The Agency shall implement its operating budget in accordance with the provisions of the standard financial regulation.
Done at Brussels, 15 December 2004.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission