Activities of Klaus-Heiner LEHNE related to 2006/0084(COD)
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Amendments (3)
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – Number 3
Article 1 – Number 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. The Office may open an investigation when sufficiently strong suspicions exist that acts of fraud or corruption or other illegal acts referred to in Article 1 have been committed. The decision whether or not to open an investigation shall take account of the investigation policy priorities and the Office’s programme of investigative activities determined in accordance with Articles 11a and 12(5). That decision shall also take account of the need for efficient utilisation of the Office’s resources and for proportionality in the means deployed. Anonymous information may also be taken into account if it constitutes sufficiently strong grounds for suspicion.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – Number 5
Article 1 – Number 5
Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999
Article 7a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 7a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. As soon as an investigation revealsthere is solid evidence that a member, manager, official or other servant or a person serving an institution, body, office or agency or an economic operator may be personally implicated in a matter, the person concerned shall be informed, provided that this does not by means of an appropriate letter giving precise details of the action they are alleged to have committed, the capacity in which they are involved in the matter, the guarantees that are provided for them and, in particular, the form in which they can submit any comments and documents they may consider relevant. Where it is deemed that to do so would prejudice the conduct of the investigation, exceptions may be made.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – Number 9
Article 1 – Number 9
Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Before forwarding the information referred to in the first subparagraph, the Office shall give the person implicated by the investigation the opportunity to comment on the matters concerning him subject to the conditions, and in accordance with the arrangements, set out in the second and third subparagraphs of Article 7a(2). This statement shall be forwarded to the Member State concerned together with the information referred to in paragraph 1. The person concerned or their authorised representative shall be given the opportunity at the outset to inspect the files relating to the investigation.