The EEAS may exceptionally delegate its powers of budget implementation concerning the administrative appropriations of its own section of the budget to Commission staff of Union delegations where this is necessary in order to ensure the continuity in the administration of such delegations in the absence of the EEAS competent authorising officer from the country where his or her delegation is based.
A chumhachtaí cur chun feidhme buiséid i ndáil le leithreasuithe oibríochtúla de chuid a roinne féin den bhuiséad, féadfaidh SEGS na cumhachtaí sin a tharmligean go heisceachtúil chuig baill foirne an Choimisiún i dtoscaireachtaí an Aontais, i gcás inar gá sin chun leanúnachas i riar na dtoscaireachtaí sin a áirithiú mura mbíonn oifigeach údarúcháin inniúil SEGS i láthair sa tír ina bhfuil toscaireacht an oifigigh sin lonnaithe.