Directorate
The Directorate (DIR) consists of the Director and a management team. The Director of the EMCDDA is proposed by the European Commission and appointed by the Centre's Management Board for a renewable five-year period.
Mission statement: Managing the Centre as a whole, namely ensuring that the Centre's objectives and related tasks, set out in the founding regulation, are duly achieved through:
- preparing and implementing the Centre's work programmes;
- preparing and implementing the Centre’s budget;
- preparing and implementing all other decisions and programmes adopted by the Centre's Management Board;
- preparing a statement of revenue and expenditure and on the implementation of the budget;
- ensuring the production of the publications required by the Centre's Regulation (EC) no 1920/2006;
- preparing and implementing all staff matters;
- ensuring day-to-day administration and management.
| Directorate | |
|---|---|
| Director | Wolfgang Götz |
| Administrative support officer | Ana Maria Vargas |
| Senior policy officer to Management board | Monika Blum |
| Data protection officer* | Ignacio Vázquez Moliní |
| Director's office (DIR) unit | |
| Head of unit | Gonçalo Felgueiras e Sousa |
| Administrative assistant | Renate De Neve |
| Principal verifying and risk assessment officer | Francisco Sentieiro |
| Principal officer diplomatic relations* | Ignacio Vázquez Moliní |
| Policy officer*** | Klaudia Palczak |
| Strategic planning and monitoring officer** | Narcisa Murgea |
| Driver | José Maria Courela |
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* Shared assignment
** Shared assignment with SAT unit from February to December 2013
*** Shared assignment with SAT unit from September to December 2013
