The OLAF Supervisory Committee

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The OLAF report 2019

7. The OLAF Supervisory Committee

The Supervisory Committee of OLAF is a body of five

independent outside experts, established to reinforce

and guarantee OLAF ’s independence by regularly

monitoring the implementation of OLAF’s investigative

function. Its members are appointed by common

agreement of the European Parliament , the Council and

the Commission.

The current members are Jan Mulder (Chairman), Petr

Klement, Grażyna Stronikowska, Helena Fazenda

and Rafael Muñoz. The members are supported by a

secretariat provided by the European Commission. The

current head of the Super visory Committee Secretariat,

appointed in October 2019, is Lambros Papadias.

The Director-General of OLAF keeps the Supervisory

Committee regularly informed about the activities of

the Office, the implementation of OLAF’s investigative

function and the follow-up to investigations.

In 2019, OLAF made available to the committee

587 documents with information on investigations

lasting more than 12 months. OLAF also informed the

committee about judicial recommendations transmitted

to the national judicial authorities, and about OLAF

cases in which information was sent to national judicial

authorities at the dismissal of the case. The committee

and its secretariat had full access to 107 case files in

OLAF’s case management system in 2019.

On the basis of the information provided by OLAF, the

committee delivers opinions to the Director-General of

OLAF and reports to the EU institutions. In 2019, the

Supervisory Committee delivered its Opinion 1/2019,

concerning OLAF’s preliminary draft budget for 2020.

In its opinions, the Supervisory Committee issues

recommendations to the Director-General. OLAF

reports annually to the committee on the state of

implementation of these recommendations. In its 2019

reporting, OLAF assessed four recommendations out

of seven as implemented, one as partially implemented,

one as ongoing and one as not applicable.

Details of the Committee’s work can be found in

its annual activity report. This report as well as

other information is publicly available on the OLAF

website(12).

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