Financing
Article 8
1. For officials working in the Office, the human resources required shall be met by staff from the Directorate-General who are already assigned to management of the action or have been redeployed within the Directorate-General, in the light of budgetary constraints, without prejudice to the annual allocation procedure. 2. For external statutory staff working in the Office, the human resources costs shall be covered by a redeployment of budget appropriations from the administrative support expenditure from the Digital Europe Programme. 3. Operational expenditure of the Office shall be covered by the financial resources allocated to Specific Objective 2 ‘Artificial Intelligence’ of the Digital Europe Programme.