Supervisor ineficaz

Três relatórios externos confirmam a ineficácia do OLAF, o organismo anti-fraude da UE.

Managerial supervision has remained inadequate and results in serious delays in the processing of files, the lodging of inconclusive reports and results that are difficult to identify", a year-long study by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) states.

The study adds that OLAF's investigations are frequently "rudimentary" with "vague" objectives and follow-up operations that gobble up large resources while adding little value.

The paper points out that while OLAF's staff has more than doubled to 390 since taking over from its predecessor, UCLAF, in 1999, the number of investigations taking more than 12 months has crept up from 51 percent to 62 percent in the past two years and that "little progress has been achieved since 1988" with respect to internal investigations in Brussels.