CHAPTER 1

In any call made in the context of grants, procurement or prizes implemented in direct management, potential beneficiaries, candidates, tenderers and participants shall, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1. be informed that, for the purposes of safeguarding the financial interests of the Union, their personal data may be transferred to internal audit services, to the European Court of Auditors, to the Financial Irregularities Panel or to the European Anti-Fraud Office (hereinafter ‘OLAF’) and between authorising officers of the Commission and the executive agencies. The financing of measures agreed by the Council for the preparation of Union crisis management operations under Title V of the Treaty on European Union shall cover incremental costs directly arising from a specific field deployment of a mission or team involving inter alia personnel from the Union institutions, including high risk insurance, travel and accommodation costs and per diem payments. The articles of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter ‘TFEU’) which directly confer specific powers on the Commission are as follows: Article 154 (social dialogue); Article 156 (studies, opinions and consultations on social matters); Articles 159 and 161 (special reports on social matters); Article 168(2) (initiatives to promote coordination on health protection matters); Article 171(2) (initiatives to promote coordination on trans-European networks); Article 173(2) (initiatives to promote coordination on matters relating to industry); Article 175, second subparagraph (report on progress made towards achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion); Article 181(2) (initiatives to promote coordination on research and technological development); Article 190 (report on research and technological development); Article 210(2) (initiatives to promote coordination of development cooperation policies); Article 214(6) (initiatives to promote coordination on humanitarian aid measures). The articles of the Treaty Establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (hereinafter ‘Euratom Treaty’) which directly confer specific powers on the Commission are as follows: Article 70 (financial support, within the limits set by the budget, for prospecting programmes in the territories of the Member States); Articles 77 to 85. In the presentation of the draft budget, further detail may be added to the lists set out in paragraphs 1 and 2, with an indication of the articles in question and the amounts involved. Acts likely to be affected by a conflict of interests within the meaning of Article 57(2) of the Financial Regulation may, inter alia, take one of the following forms without prejudice of their qualification as illegal activities under Article 141: granting oneself or others unjustified direct or indirect advantages; refusing to grant a beneficiary the rights or advantages to which that beneficiary is entitled; committing undue or wrongful acts or failing to carry out acts that are mandatory. Other acts likely to be affected by a conflict of interests are those which may impair the impartial and objective performance of a person’s duties such as, inter alia, the participation in an evaluation committee for a public procurement or grant procedure when the person may, directly or indirectly, benefit financially from the outcome of these procedures. A conflict of interest shall be presumed to exist if an applicant, candidate or tenderer is a member of staff covered by the Staff Regulations, unless his participation in the procedure has been authorised in advance by his superior. In the event of a conflict of interests, the authorising officer by delegation shall take appropriate measures to avoid any undue influence of the person concerned on the process or procedure in question.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.