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". – The honourable Member refers to an inquiry launched by the Commission on 13 June following press articles on Europol. In order to avoid a possible misunderstanding the Commission will have to point out that it has not launched an inquiry into the Europol-related matter to which the honourable Member refers. As far as the Commission is aware the matter concerns accusations of fraud unrelated to the Sensus contract. The Commission understands that internal investigations by Europol have led to the Dutch judicial authorities now investigating the matter.
As far as the action the Commission has undertaken concerning the Sensus project is concerned, the Commission has initiated an internal review of the management of this project as indicated in the Commission's reply to the oral questions by the honourable Member. Following this review and also on the basis of ongoing, more general recommendations, both from the Court of Auditors and the external monitoring panel of the Information Society Technologies programme, the Commission is implementing changes in procedures which will ensure significant improvements in project management.
The Commission attends the meetings of the management board of Europol and meetings of the heads of national units in an observer capacity. It has no mandate to investigate Europol other than in the context of direct contractor relations such as through the Sensus project. In the context of Sensus and as explained in the replies to written questions, the Commission is not currently planning a financial audit of Europol's participation in Sensus. But the need for such an audit will be assessed again when all the cost claims related to Sensus have been submitted by project participants. That should happen in the next few months.
Sensus and Aventinus were involved in pre-competitive research using many basic technologies for the production of a demonstrator. The objective was to overcome linguistic barriers between European law enforcement agencies in their fight against organised crime such as drugs smuggling and illegal immigration. Sensus is an assembly of software models including linguistic content, utilisation and report generation, workflow and database management systems. There is therefore no specific basic technology.
According to information received by the Commission, although Polygon was originally intended to be used in Sensus, in the autumn of 1999 a different technology was selected instead. The Commission service has been assured by the contractors that Polygon is not a component of the Sensus demonstrator. The coordinator of the Aventinus projects has confirmed that Polygon was not used in either Aventinus I or Aventinus II.
As far as technologies used in Europolis and Eurint systems are concerned, the Commission is not in a position to address the question of the honourable Member."@en1
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