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Article 487
 

487.1. The Comptroller General’s Office is the internal control body of the Institute that will be in charge of the control of the income and expenditure of the Institute; in the exercise of its powers, it will have technical and management autonomy to decide over its operation and decisions.


487.2. The hierarchical level of the head of the Comptroller General’s Office will be equivalent to that of an Executive Director.


487.3. The head of the Comptroller General’s Office will be appointed by the House of Representatives, with the vote of two-thirds of the members present, at the proposal of the public institutions of higher education, through the procedures and in the deadlines established by the Organic Law of the General Congress.


487.4. The elected Comptroller will swear in before the General Council.


487.5. The Comptroller General’s Off ce will have the organizational structure, staff and resources approved by the General Council at the proposal of the Comptroller, in accordance with the rules established in this Chapter.


487.6. In its performance, the Comptroller General’s Off ce will be subject to the principles of certainty, legality, independence, impartiality, maximum publicity and objectivity.