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"Mr President, Mrs Gräßle, I would first and foremost like to remind you of the importance the Council attaches to the fight against fraud and to the protection of the European Union’s financial interests. The Council considers that the regulations relating to the European Anti-Fraud Office must not only be appropriate to the needs but must also be consistent.
In this context, we should remember the Council’s 2007 invitation to present a consolidated legal instrument covering the various aspects of OLAF’s work, which would provide the clarity we are all seeking. The Council has taken due note of the European Parliament’s amendments adopted on 20 November concerning the modification of the rules for OLAF investigations, and of the debates on this issue, which took place previously within the Committee on Budgetary Control.
The Council has also taken due note of point 44 of the European Parliament’s resolution of 23 October 2008, accompanying its first reading of the 2009 budget, which deals with the same issue. The question of the Council’s work schedule has already been raised in the budget trialogue of 13 November and in the consultation meeting with the European Parliament of 21 November, by my colleague Mr Woerth, president of the Ecofin Council (Budget).
At this trialogue, in response to the Council’s concerns which, I believe, are also shared by the European Parliament, the Commission announced that it will present a working document on the issue of the consolidation of the OLAF regulations at the beginning of next year. I can therefore gladly re-affirm what the Council has already stated, during the trialogue of 13 November, and at the consultation meeting of 21 November, namely that the Council will examine diligently, and with the greatest attention, the outcome of the European Parliament’s work on the proposed amendment to Regulation No 1073/1999, and the working document due from the Commission.
I hope to have the opportunity to speak again in order to reply to any comments you might make before 6 p.m. I apologise in advance for having to leave at that time."@en1
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