Ref. Ares(2013)2565823 - 03/07/2013
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
INTERNAL AUDIT SERVICE
Horizontal Affairs and Audit in EU Agencies
Director
Brussels,
Sent by mail to :
ask+request-573-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
your application for access to documents ref. GestDem 2013/3331
(Ares(2013)2443047 21/06/2013)
Dear Mr Nicholson,
We refer to your e-mail dated 20 June 2013 in which you make a request for access to the
following documents:
(1)
IAS Audit reports and its annexes for the contracts concluded by European
Commission and FRA Vienna with Danish Institute for Human Rights;
(2)
Relevant information and related documents on respect of collaboration of IAS
with OLAF on these cases;
(3)
IAS Audit Report on FRA procurement procedure for "Provision of legal services
to FRA staff";
(4)
IAS audit report of "conflict of interests at FRA".
Herewith we inform you that, after an in depth analysis of points 1, 3 and 4 of your
request and a thorough review of IAS audit reports issued over the last 4 years and the
related sampled files, the specific instances mentioned above were not subject to audit
activities and/or were not included in the relevant files’ sampling, performed by the
Internal Audit Service of the European Commission.
However, as regards point 2 of your request, we will not be in a position to complete the
handling of your application within the time limit of 15 working days, which expires on
12 July 2013. An extended time limit is needed to identify the relevant information subject
to your request. Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
documents. The new time limit expires on 2 August 2013.
Agnieszka
Kazmierczak
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: MADO 32/60 - Tel. direct line +32 229-90868
Copy to : M. Morten Kjaerum Director FRA
Ms Petra Kneuer Director OLAF A- ref. THOR/MM/ab/S(2013)15030
Mr Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea , Director JUST D
Mr P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, EU Ombudsman
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