directly (‧direct management‧), by its departments, including its staff in the Union Delegations under the authority of their respective Head of Delegation, in accordance with Article 56(2), or through executive agencies as referred to in Article 62.

140. Notes that the Heads of Union Delegations, where they are the only EEAS staff in a delegation, may not delegate, even on a temporary basis, their powers as authorising officers for the Union Delegation's administrative expenditure when they are absent; notes, furthermore, that this could create practical difficulties for business continuity and additional risks in the Union Delegation; asks the Commission therefore to allow, on a temporary basis, the Head of Union Delegation to delegate his power as authorising officer;

6. Welcomes the EU’s overall strategy towards BiH including the strengthening of the EU’s presence in BiH by the creation of a reinforced EU representative acting under a double-hatted mandate as EUSR and HoD; commends the EUSR/HoD for supporting BiH on EU-related matters and facilitating a locally owned EU integration process; fully supports the EUSR/HoD in his ambitions to help BiH authorities in anchoring the EU agenda at the core of the political process by ensuring consistency, coordination and coherence of Union action; urges all political actors, in this respect, to work in close partnership with the EUSR; recalls the need to ...[+++]implement the enhanced EU presence by clear and comprehensive strategies on the various problems and at the same time by firm and coherent support from all EU Member States for the EUSR/HoD; notes, in this regard, that the EU must allocate sufficient means, including staffing to allow it to have a presence in the entire country, so that the EUSR/HoD can achieve the required objectives;

118. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council (including its Secretary-General/High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Mr Javier Solana, and his Permanent representative for Human Rights, Ms Riina Kionka, and the members of COHOM) and the Commission (including the heads of its delegations to third countries), to the governments and parliaments of the Member States, and to the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, the President of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary ...[+++]Assembly and the Co-Presidents of the EU-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, as well as to the Co-Presidents of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and of the Interparliamentary Delegations between the EU and the countries concerned.

a head of delegation who is functionally and hierarchically in charge; if, however, there is a national police coordination centre, the leader is only the liaison officer's hierarchical superior; functional responsibility for the liaison officer should then lie with the head of the coordination centre.

(b) in close cooperation with the Head of Delegation, issue invitations for local open tender, receive tenders, both local and international( open and restricted), preside over the examination of tenders, establish the results of this examination, sign contracts and riders thereto and approve expenditure.