Mutual assistance exchanges - OLAF

OLAF assists competent authorities in the Member States of the EU referred to in Council Regulation (EC) 515/97 in preventing, investigating and prosecuting violations of customs or agricultural legislation and to enhance the effectiveness of the cooperation among Member States and between them and the European Commission. For this purpose, competent authorities of Member States communicate and exchange anti-fraud information with each other and with the Commission [OLAF]. Anti-fraud information is also exchanged with Third countries under Mutual Assistance Agreements. These exchanges are made by means of the mailing applications of OLAF Anti-Fraud Information System (AFIS) and are organised via the use of screens, called modules, which are designed to cover a specific type of information regarding a particular area of movement of goods and/or means of transport. Three main categories of stakeholders are involved in the processing operation whose personal data therefore are processed: the persons concerned by the investigation or prosecution, the providers of information to the system and the recipients of the information (both of these latter can be OLAF agents or individuals in Member States authorities). The personal data processed concerns identification data, professional data, financial data, case involvement and criminal record data.