(2) The Federal Agency and the Joint Commission shall coordinate in the planning and implementation of their projects, in particular with the aim in mind of
making efficient use of their resources.
(3) The Federal Agency and the Joint Commission may avail themselves of the
services of interpreters and experts as their respective funds permit.
Section 3 Headquarters
The seat of the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture shall be Wiesbaden.
Section 4 Secretariat
(1) The National Agency for the Prevention of Torture shall avail itself of the infrastructure of the Centre for Criminology (Kriminologische Zentralstelle e.V.).
To this end, the Centre for Criminology shall provide a secretariat which shall
carry out the everyday business of the National Agency for the Prevention of
Torture and support the latter with staff and equipment.
(2) The staff of the secretariat of the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture shall only be appointed or dismissed with the consent of the Federal Agency
and of the Joint Commission. It shall in specialist terms only be subject to the instructions of the Federal Agency and of the Joint Commission.
Section 5 Funding
(1) The funding requirement of the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture may be a maximum of Euro 300,000.00 per year. A maximum amount of
Euro 100,000.00 of this sum shall be accounted for by the Federal Agency, which
shall be met from the budget of the Federation, and a maximum amount of Euro
200,000.00 by the Joint Commission, which shall be met from the budgets of the
Länder. The distribution of the shares accounted for by the respective Länder shall
be effected in accordance with the Königstein Key. One third of the joint costs
shall be met by the Federation and two-thirds by the Länder.
(2) The staff and material expenditure shall be met by the Hesse Ministry of Justice, for Integration and European Affairs. The proportions of the Federation and
the Länder shall become due in the course of each accounting year in two instalments on 31 May and 30 November in accordance with the methods followed in
the budget plan of the Centre for Criminology. Over- and under-payments by the
Federation regarding the Federal Agency or by the Länder with regard to the Joint
Commission towards the funding needed in accordance with the annual account
shall be balanced in the second sub-amount of the following accounting year.
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