This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'IAS Audit Reports on Contracts concluded by European Commission and FRA Vienna with Danish Institute for Human Rights'.



 
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