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Commission Decision of 28 April 1999 establishing the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) (notified under document number SEC(1999) 802) (1999/352/EC, ECSC, Euratom)
Consolidated text: Commission Decision of 28 April 1999 establishing the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) (notified under document number SEC(1999) 802) (1999/352/EC, ECSC, Euratom)
Commission Decision of 28 April 1999 establishing the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) (notified under document number SEC(1999) 802) (1999/352/EC, ECSC, Euratom)
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COMMISSION DECISION of 28 April 1999 establishing the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) (notified under document number SEC(1999) 802) (OJ L 136 31.5.1999, p. 20) |
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COMMISSION DECISION
of 28 April 1999
establishing the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF)
(notified under document number SEC(1999) 802)
(1999/352/EC, ECSC, Euratom)
Article 1
Establishment of the Office
A European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF), hereinafter referred to as ‘the Office’, is hereby established. ►M1 The Office shall replace the Task Force for Coordination of Fraud Prevention and take over all its tasks. ◄
Article 2
Tasks of the Office
The Office shall be responsible for carrying out internal administrative investigations intended:
to combat fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity adversely affecting the ►M1 Union ◄ ’s financial interests,
to investigate serious facts linked to the performance of professional activities which may constitute a breach of obligations by officials and servants of the Communities likely to lead to disciplinary and, in appropriate cases, criminal proceedings or an analogous breach of obligations by Members of the institutions and bodies, heads of the bodies or members of staff of the institutions and bodies not subject to the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the Communities.
The Office shall exercise the Commission’s powers as they are defined in the provisions established in the framework of the Treaties, and subject to the limits and conditions laid down therein.
The Office may be entrusted with investigations in other areas by the Commission or by the other institutions or bodies.
The Office shall be responsible for any other operational activity of the Commission in relation to the fight against fraud as referred to in paragraph 1, and in particular:
developing the necessary infrastructure;
ensuring the collection and analysis of information;
giving technical support, in particular in the area of training, to the other institutions or bodies as well as to the competent national authorities.
Article 3
Independence of the investigative function
The Office shall exercise the powers of investigation referred to in Article 2(1) in complete independence. In exercising these powers, the ►M1 Director-General ◄ of the Office shall neither seek nor take instructions from the Commission, any government or any other institution or body.
Article 4
Supervisory Committee
A ►M1 Supervisory Committee ◄ shall be established, the composition and powers of which shall be laid down by the ►M1 Union ◄ legislature. This Committee shall be responsible for the regular monitoring of the discharge by the Office of its investigative function.
Article 5
Director-General
The Director-General shall be responsible for the Office’s conduct of investigations.
Article 6
Operation of the Office
Article 7
Effective date
This Decision shall take effect on the date of the entry into force of the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) concerning investigations carried out by the European Anti-fraud Office. ►M1 Up to the first day of the month following the appointment of the Director of the Office, the current business of the Office shall be dealt with by the Director of the Task Force for Coordination of Fraud Prevention. ◄