OLAF CRITICISM EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has issued a highly critical report on the European Union's (EU) continued failing to contain fraud and the weaknesses of anti-fraud unit OLAF. The paper calls for rationalisation of OLAF's powers, even now split amongst different laws: these should "be grouped together in a single regulation," said the parliament. It also called for reforms in appointing OLAF's director-general, which "has been unduly time-consuming", noted MEPs.
The report added it was "completely unacceptable that there ...
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