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Mr President, I would just like to have the floor for a brief moment in order to return to what Mrs Avilés Perea said. She repeated the question as to how we guarantee that nothing like what happened with Eurostat can recur, and that is the essential issue. The Eurostat case showed just how important are the measures taken by the Commission as part of its reforms, such as the rotation of directors-general. As the Court of Auditors expressed it, the fiefdom culture must go; instead, the same standards must apply everywhere. There are numerous provisions in the Financial Regulation to ensure that nothing of the kind can happen again.
We have also taken appropriate action to deal with the other issue, that of how we can ensure that, in the event of something happening, the flow of information does not malfunction in the way it did with Eurostat. We have laid down very definite rules to the effect that the Commissioners must be informed when their DGs are being audited or investigated by OLAF or by the internal audit department, so that it is impossible for someone not to be kept up to date. The proposal for an amendment to the OLAF Regulation serves to make it clear that the competent Commissioners must be provided with information as and when OLAF is engaged in an investigation or when a case is open.
I cannot do other than reiterate that we have indeed learned our lessons from the Eurostat case. Mr Prodi, on two occasions, came to this House in order to set out the action we were taking, making commitments to Parliament and to the Committee on Budgetary Control, and those commitments we have met.
I will take this opportunity to thank you again for this debate, for the excellent report, and, overall, for the in-depth cooperation with the Committee on Budgetary Control over recent years, which, though critical, has been constructive. My warm thanks to you, many times over."@en1
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