 To ensure the overall supervision of its activities, the members sit on a governing board, which has a wide range of responsibilities including appointing the director.A report by the consultancy Ernst & Young published in 2013 by the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee found that F4E had suffered from significant management difficulties.According to the report, "the organisation faced a series of internal problems that have only been gradually addressed, notably an organisational structure ill-adapted for project-oriented activities."