Article 11

Supervisory Committee 1. The Supervisory Committee shall reinforce the Office's independence by regular monitoring of the implementation of the investigative function. At the request of the Director or on its own initiative, the committee shall deliver opinions to the Director concerning the activities of the Office, without however interfering with the conduct of investigations in progress. 2. It shall be composed of five independent outside persons who possess the qualifications required for appointment in their respective countries to senior posts relating to the Office's areas of activity. They shall be appointed by common accord of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. 3. The term of office of members shall be three years and shall be renewable once. 4. On expiry of their term of office, members shall remain in office until their appointments are renewed or until they are replaced. 5. In carrying out their duties, they shall neither seek nor take instructions from any government or any institution, body, office or agency. 6. The Supervisory Committee shall appoint its chairman. It shall adopt its own rules of procedure. It shall hold at least 10 meetings per year. It shall take its decisions by a majority of its members. Its secretariat shall be provided by the Office. 7. The Director shall forward to the Supervisory Committee each year the Office's programme of activities referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation. The Director shall keep the committee regularly informed of the Office's activities, its investigations, the results thereof and the action taken on them. Where an investigation has been in progress for more than nine months, the Director shall inform the Supervisory Committee of the reasons for which it has not yet been possible to wind up the investigation, and of the expected time for completion. The Director shall inform the committee of cases where the institution, body, agency or office concerned has failed to act on the recommendations made by it. The Director shall inform the committee of cases requiring information to be forwarded to the judicial authorities of a Member State. 8. The Supervisory Committee shall adopt at least one report on its activities per year which it shall send to the institutions. The committee may submit reports to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors on the results of the Office's investigations and the action taken thereon.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.