The administrative and accounting secretariat:

• performs the administrative and accounting tasks of the Department, taking on all deriving responsibilities and directly reporting to the general manager;
• processes and edits the agenda and the minutes of the Councils of the Department, files the minutes, and prepares abstracts of record and certified copies;
• performs all accounting duties of the Department;
• prepares budget and final balance related to departmental activities, liaising with the central Programme and Budget Office;
• maintains the incoming and outgoing protocol;
• is responsible for the departmental web site;
• is involved in all procedures of selection of personnel except those for the coverage of the teaching programme;
• cooperates with the Director of the Department for the functioning and organization of courses, congresses, and seminars;
• processes the documents and takes the proper actions to ensure that decisions made by the departmental organs, even those with external significance, be implemented;
• is involved in the administrative aspects of the activities carried out by departmental centers of excellence;
• processes the documents and takes the proper actions to ensure that decisions made by the interdepartmental centers be implemented;
• cooperates with the directors of the centers to improve the departmental activities;
• performs administrative and accounting duties, being responsible for the deriving activities along with the directors of the departmental centers;
• is responsible for the administrative acts performed by the centers, and controls that they are conducted according to the rules, reporting directly to the general manager;
• is responsible of administrative and accounting acts performed to implement the decisions made by the organs of the centers; and
• controls and makes annual estimates of the purchase orders coming from the departmental centers.