Press Release: Joint Transparency International-OLAF Policy Roundtable on blacklisting: Protecting EU Financial Interests through Management of Effective and Transparent Debarment Systems

Transparency International Brussels and the European Commission / European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF), organize jointly on the 23rd and 24th of January a policy roundtable on blacklisting. The seminar explores ways to protect EU financial interests through debarment systems. Debarment systems could exclude companies having committed fraud in the past from receiving EU funds and contracts in the future.

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European Commission: Speech: SPEECH/06/25, Protecting EU financial interests through management of effective and transparent debarment systems, 23.1.06 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/06/25&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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