1 Amendments of Gabriele STAUNER related to 2006/0084(COD)
Amendment 20 #
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 shall also be taken into account provided it is sufficiently well supported.