Staff who meet the conditions required to be eligible to vote on the Agency and Working Conditions Committee and who have reached the age of eighteen are eligible to stand for election to the Committee.
However, the spouse of the Director General of the Agency, his or her partner in a civil solidarity pact, his or her cohabitee, ascendants, descendants, brothers, sisters and relatives in the same degree may not stand for election.
If the Director General of the Agency finds that a candidate does not meet the conditions set out in the preceding paragraphs, he shall take a reasoned decision regarding his ineligibility, which he shall notify to the interested party and to the trade union organisation that presented the candidate.