The President, the Secretary-General, the Directors-General and the Heads of Service of the European Parliament shall transmit without delay to the Office any evidence of which they are aware from which the existence of irregularities as referred to in the first paragraph may be presumed.

“The Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard, OAFCN members and OLAF's national partners all share a common interest. We want to protect EU taxpayers’ money and fight fraud,” said Commissioner, Lieutenant-General József Béndek, Head of the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard in his opening speech.

The President, the Secretary-General, the Directors-General and the Heads of Service of the European Parliament shall transmit without delay to the Office any evidence of which they are aware from which the existence of irregularities as referred to in the first paragraph may be presumed.

“The end of an OLAF investigation is usually the beginning of a national or Community administrative, disciplinary or judicial proceeding”, he adds, speaking on the occasion of the Eurojustice Conference in Dublin, where heads of prosecution services and prosecuting officers from across Europe get together to consider questions of policy, management and ethics in the criminal law field.

improving the information flow between OLAF and the European institutions; fully guaranteeing the rights of individuals affected by an external or internal inquiry; strengthening OLAF’s operational efficiency and enhancing the role of the Office’s Supervisory Committee; improving the information flow between the Member States and the Commission, for example by amending the regulations on notification of irregularities; developing the Customs Investigations Information File (“FIDE”) and implementing the new Regulation concerning mutual administrative assistance in the field of VAT and the laundering of profits from Community fraud; ...[+++]developing the criminal-law protection of the Community’s financial interests with the competent authorities in the Member States, for example by following up the decision of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) to establish, in the constitutional treaty, the legal basis for creating a European Prosecutor with competence for protecting the financial interests of the European Union.

NThis seminar which brought together 27 spokespersons, heads of communication and/or information and public information officers of the various investigation services with whom OLAF works was the latest in a series of meetings of the OAFCN.