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In accordance with the decision of the Parliament:
In order to promote a competitive industry based on the sustainable use of renewable natural resources and the vitality of wealth and rural life, there is a natural resource centre.
The Centre falls within the remit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
The Agency shall be responsible for:
(1) pursue scientific research and development activities;
(2) provide information and expert services in support of social decision-making and public authorities;
(3) the transfer of knowledge and technology;
(4) produce statistics in its field of activity, unless it is a matter for the other authority;
(5) maintain the registers necessary for its activities;
(6) carry out the tasks relating to the conservation of genetic resources;
(7) promote international cooperation;
(8) carry out other tasks assigned to it by law or by law;
(9) carry out the tasks assigned to it by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
The Natural Resources Centre operates in the Statistical Law (2004) For the purposes of the statistical authority.
The Agency's organisation consists of national performance units and activities covering the activities of the Agency as a whole. For the purpose of carrying out statistical tasks, the Centre shall have a separate and independent performance-responsible entity for the performance of other tasks.
The Natural Resources Centre shall be headed by the Executive Director. The Executive Director shall be responsible for the effectiveness and efficiency of the Centre's activities and shall adopt the Centre's Rules of Procedure.
The Council of Ministers places the Board of Directors in support of the strategic management of the Agency's activities. In addition, the Centre may set up the negotiating bodies necessary for the performance of its tasks.
The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Council.
Unless otherwise provided, the Executive Director shall decide the matters covered by the Natural Resources Department. A decision of the Director-General may be delegated by the Rules of Procedure to another official. The Executive Director may, in an individual case, take a decision under which the Rules of Procedure would otherwise have to be settled.
The Agency may conclude contracts for the purpose of carrying out research, clearing and statistical tasks of its kind and on the implementation of research programmes. The Centre may, within its budget, use experts.
The Centre may carry out surveys and studies in its field of activity and provide other specialist services for payment.
The Centre may receive donations for its activities.
Charges to be recovered from a natural resource centre shall be governed by the State payment law (150/1992) .
More detailed provisions on the management of the Natural Resources Centre, the tasks, the settlement of cases and the setting, tasks and powers of the Executive Board are laid down by a decree of the Council of Ministers. The General Council Regulation also provides for the staff and the titles of the Centre.
More detailed provisions on the organisation of activities and tasks of the Natural Resources Centre, seat and decision-making powers are laid down in the Rules of Procedure.
This Act shall enter into force on 1 January 2015.
This law repeals the Law on the Research Centre for Agricultural and Food Economics (1395/1997) , the Law on the Institute for Fisheries and Fisheries (131/1987) And Law on the Forest Research Institute (1114/1999) .
Otherwise the reference to the law referred to in paragraph 2 shall mean the entry into force of this law by reference to this Act. Similarly, the reference to the Research Centre for Agriculture and Food Research, the RIP and the Fisheries Research Institute or the Forest Research Institute shall mean the entry into force of this law from the Natural Resources Centre.
The Agency will continue the activities of the Institute for Agriculture and Food Research, the Institute for Fisheries and Fisheries and the Forest Research Institute. In the abovementioned establishments, pending the entry into force of this Act, existing commitments, existing commitments and contracts and the resulting rights and obligations shall be transferred to the Natural Resources Centre.
At the time of entry into force of this Act, the Ministry of Natural Resources shall, at the time of entry into force of this Act, transfer to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry the statistical authorities and other statistics produced by it, as well as for agricultural products Price monitoring matters, existing commitments and contracts and the rights and obligations arising therefrom.
The contracts and commitments referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall, however, only be transferred to the Natural Resources Centre, subject to their content.
The status of staff in the current relationship shall be governed by the (18/04/1994) Articles 5a to 5c.
Staff of the institution referred to in Article 10 (1), as well as those referred to in Article 10 (2) of the Information Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, shall, at the time of entry into force of this Act, transfer to the For service. The person in a fixed-term contract shall be assigned to the Natural Resources Centre for the duration of the temporary employment relationship.
The period of employment of the transferred staff shall be regarded as a period of integration between the State which has continued to determine the benefits associated with it.
A person with a contract of employment may be transferred without his consent if he is transferred to his or her region of employment or to its territory. In the field of employment, the unemployment insurance law (1290/2002) chapter 9 of Chapter 1 Of the region.
The terms of the contract relationship shall be subject to the other elements of the terms and conditions laid down in collective agreements.
THEY 33/2014 , MmVM 11/2014, EV 66/2014This Act shall enter into force on 1 May 2015.
THEY 298/2014 , HVM 50/2014, EV 323/2014
