to propose issues to be included in the daily agenda items of the BoD or the Bank’s General Meetings, specifically those that regard increases or reductions in the share capital, approval of the proceedings, proposals of the BoD to the General Meeting etc to manage crucial and urgent issues as a Crisis Management Committee and to make the appropriate statement to the BoD to approve principles and rules of the Bank’s Credit Policy, as well as regulations, manuals, policies and procedures for Credit Policy which embrace guidelines for the implementation of these principles to approve the Human Resources’ Policy and promotions of executives or the recruitment of new ones in the positions of Assistant General Manager or Deputy General Manager or General Manager or Management Advisor, as well as their remuneration, in line with the delegated by the BoD responsibility, according to article to approve the annual compensations, benefits and incentives policy for personnel and executives within the limits of the Budget and to make recommendations to the BoD, when it is required to monitor and supervise the application of Corporate Governance rules and programmes and decide on the compliance measures following competent units or committees relevant proposals to approve, complete or modify the accounting policies of the Group after the appropriate recommendation of the Finance Division to approve changes in the organizational structure to decide on resolutions of the Bank’s interest rate policy and the pricing of banking services and products to approve the introduction of new products, as well as the significant modifications of existing products and services and determine their pricing before providing them to the customers to approve the marketing strategy and monitor its implementation and effectiveness to approve the Group’s strategy regarding technological infrastructure to approve the launching of partnerships with segments or sectors of the economy to set up administrative committees and determine their composition and responsibilities to assign to Bank’s Divisions the evaluation or/and implementation of projects that are of strate gic importance to delegate to executives of the Bank and of subsidiaries with Marketing/Lending and Credit Officers responsibilities and define their credit limits, the terms and requirements of their credit authorities, in the context of their participation in various credit approval committees to determine, within the range of its defined credit authorities, the credit limits of the administrative committees and the Bank’s executives regarding issues that exceed the defined limits of other internal credit approval bodies to examine and propose to the BoD all issues regarding risk assumption limits, which exceed the defined limits of the Group Executive Board and require a direct resolution from the BoD, especially for issues that concern underwritings, large credit exposures and major investments to administrate the Share Buyback Program of the Bank, in line with the applying each time resolutions of the General Meeting of the Shareholders.