Comments are too late, OLAF already commented twice (handled by Simone White and Charlotte Arwidi)

Enclosed the 2009 note.

René SLOOTJES
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From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:05 PM
To: SLOOTJES Rene (HR)
Subject: FW: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

René

Some after deadline comments from Anton Penneman on the Guidelines – do you take up the questions he raised, notably as to the note of the Commission to OLAF asking for non-transmittal of identity of whistleblower?

Best 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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