Direktorja imenuje Upravni odbor na podlagi seznama kandidatov, ki jih predlaga Komisija po javnem natečaju in po objavi razpisa za oddajo ponudb v Uradnem listu Evropske unije in drugje, za mandat petih let, ki se lahko enkrat podaljša za obdobje do pet let.
1.The director shall be appointed by the Management Board on the basis of a list of candidates proposed by the Commission after an open competition, following publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and elsewhere of a call for expressions of interest, for a period of five years, which may be extended once for a further period of up to five years.