Financial rules
Article 61
1. The financial rules applicable to Europol shall be adopted by the Management Board after consultation with the Commission. They shall not depart from Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1271/2013 unless such a departure is specifically required for the operation of Europol and the Commission has given its prior consent. 2. Europol may award grants related to the fulfilment of tasks as referred to in Article 4. 3. Europol may award grants without a call for proposals to Member States for performance of their cross-border operations and investigations and for the provision of training relating to the tasks referred to in points (h) and (i) of Article 4(1). 4. In respect of the financial support to be given to joint investigation teams' activities, Europol and Eurojust shall jointly establish the rules and conditions upon which applications for such support are to be processed.