Dear Christoph,

Apparently Marco prefers that the people charged with whistleblowing in OLAF deal with this.  Sorry for that.  As to the Algerian case, I will probably send it to IDOC.

Kind regards,

Anton.

From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:09 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Subject: RE: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

Dear Anton

Thanks for this. Is the Algerian case the one where a contractual agent reported that his HoD was handing out contracts to the company of a friend (I have heard of it vaguely when talking to colleagues).

Now that would be a good case according to me …

Best regards

Christoph

From: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:01 PM
To: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Subject: RE: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

Dear Christoph,

I'm sorry that I wasn't really helpful.  I remember now that Simone has been charged since a long time with that issue.  She should have beautiful examples…  Do you want my last case?  It has been opened in the meantime?

Kind regards,

Anton.

From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:56 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Subject: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

Anton

Attached the COM note to OLAF of 2009. The persons at OLAF who dealt with the Guidelines were Simone White and Charlotte Arwidi, I believe.

Thanks again for your help and kind regards

Christoph

From: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:01 PM
To: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Cc: PECORARO Marco (OLAF); DE MOOR Stefan (OLAF)
Subject: RE: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

Dear Christoph,

For what it is worth, I leave you some suggestions for clarification in the draft.

The question you asked me over the phone should in principle be answered by my OLAF colleague(s) who provided you with the following nice sentence in the introduction of the draft communication… " While these rules have already triggered a number of significant investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF[AP1]       ), some staff may be reticent to make full use of the whistleblowing procedure, because of a fear of negative repercussions on their reputation or career."

Anyway, I will go through the cases  for which I drafted an opinion since February 2012 and I hope that I will find some good examples to help you out but as I told you already I have no spontaneous recollection of "good" examples that we can sell to press.

Kind regards,

Anton PENNEMAN
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From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:07 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Subject: FW: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:06 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Subject: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

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