Financial irregularities panel - Parliament

Opinion of 12 June 2007 on a notification for prior checking concerning the "Financial Irregularities Panel" (Case 2007-139)
By Bureau Decision of 10 March 2004 the European Parliament set up a specialised financial irregularities panel. The role of the panel, which functions independently, is to issue to the Appointing Authority - or, where appropriate, to the authority empowered to conclude contracts of employment - opinions evaluating, in cases which have been referred to the panel, whether financial irregularities have occurred, how serious they are and what their consequences might be.
The main recommendations issued by the EDPS in his opinion on the financial irregularities panel relate to the quality of the data collected, their storage, the relations between the panel and OLAF, and information supplied to data subjects.