Article 6

Investigations procedure 1. The Director of the Office shall direct the conduct of investigations. 2. The Office's employees shall carry out their tasks on production of a written authorisation showing their identity and their capacity. 3. The Office's employees shall be equipped for each intervention with a written authority issued by the Director indicating the subject matter of the investigation. 4. During on-the-spot inspections and checks, the Office's employees shall adopt an attitude in keeping with the rules and practices governing officials of the Member State concerned, with the Staff Regulations and with the decisions referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 4(1). 5. Investigations shall be conducted continuously over a period which must be proportionate to the circumstances and complexity of the case. 6. The Member States shall ensure that their competent authorities, in conformity with national provisions, give the necessary support to enable the Office's employees to fulfil their task. The institutions and bodies shall ensure that their members and staff afford the necessary assistance to enable the Office's agents to fulfil their task; the offices and agencies shall ensure that their managers and staff do likewise.

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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.