WRITTEN QUESTION E-0979/02 by Herbert Bösch (PSE) to the Commission. Missions by OLAF officials.
Date: 2002-04-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Anti-fraud Office, fact-finding mission, fraud, fraud against the EU, statistics

17.4.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 92 E/33

(2003/C 92 E/036)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0979/02

by Herbert Bösch (PSE) to the Commission

(12 April 2002)

Subject: Missions by OLAF officials

Can the Commission provide statistics showing the number of days spent on mission by each individual
OLAF official since 1 January 2001?

Can the Commission also provide a list of all missions to countries outside the EU and state the duration
and purpose of each of these missions, together with the costs incurred?

Answer given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission

(2 July 2002)

Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 concerning
investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) (1) and Council Regulation (Euratom)
No 1074/1999 of 25 May 1999 (1) provide in Article 12, paragraph 3 that the Director of OLAF shall
report regularly to the Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors on the findings
of investigations carried out by the Office, whilst respecting the confidentiality of those investigations, the
legitimate rights of the persons involved and, where appropriate, national provisions applicable to judicial
proceedings.

With respect to the Honourable Member’s request for statistics showing the number of days spent on
mission by each individual OLAF official since 1 January 2001, the Commission is unable to provide such
information as it might risk compromising ongoing investigations or prejudice the rights of economic
operators and/or individuals, who have been or are being investigated for the detection of irregularities.

The Commission is also unable to provide a list of all missions to countries outside the Union and state the
duration and purpose of these missions, together with the costs incurred as the Honourable Member has
requested, for the same reasons given above.

The Commission is however able to inform the Honourable Member that officials of OLAF have spent a
total amount of 2 244,50 days on missions during 2001 and that the total costs of these missions was
EUR 743 690,84. The average amount of days spent by each OLAF official on mission during 2001 is
therefore equal to 15 days. This amount includes the number of days spent on missions in countries
outside the Union.

(1) OJ L 136, 31.5.1999.

(2003/C 92 E/037)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1003/02

by María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco (PSE) to the Commission

(12 April 2002)

Subject: Honouring the commitments made to women in connection with the Afghanistan reconstruction

process

What action has the Commission taken (or is it intending to take) in order to ensure that Afghan women
are involved in the decision-making process and in determining the use of the financial aid granted by the
EU to Afghanistan for reconstruction purposes, and that they are the direct beneficiaries of between 25 %
and 30 % of that aid, as called for by the European Parliament on 13 December 2001?

Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission

(4 June 2002)

As the Honourable Member will be aware, the factions in Afghanistan agreed on 5 December 2001 in
Bonn/Petersberg an Agreement on provisional arrangements in Afghanistan pending the reestablishment of
permanent government institutions.