COUNCIL ADOPTS OLAF REFORM.

The saga of the reform of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) is drawing to a close. The Council endorsed, on 25 February, the compromise worked out by the European Parliament, Council and Commission in July 2012 on the legislative proposal presented for the first time by the European Commission in May 2006 and then amended in March 2011. The EP's Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) approved by a large majority, on 8 October 2012, the three-way agreement on this regulation, which clarifies...