Acuerdo entre el Parlamento Europeo, el Consejo, la Comisión Europea, el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea, el Banco Central Europeo, el Tribunal de Cuentas Europeo, el Comité Económico y Social Europeo y el Comité Europeo de las Regiones por el que se establece un Órgano interinstitucional de normas éticas para los miembros de las instituciones y de los órganos consultivos mencionados en el artículo 13 del Tratado de la Unión Europea

Presentada por Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Gerolf Annemans, Gilles Lebreton

9. Believes Eliminado: the body should rely on the existing powers of institutions to ask their members for information or on the agreement of national authorities to share information; believes that the independent experts should be able to exchange information with national authorities where necessary for the performance of their tasks, while treating such information with the same confidentiality as the originating authority did; stresses in this regard that the independent experts should have access to the administrative documents of participating parties, especially the party consulting them on a case, Añadido: that, in order to Eliminado: allow them to carry out well-reasoned and well-documented assessments; Añadido: prevent the repetition of episodes such as Qatargate, there is no need for an ethics body such as the one being proposed, but rather for the proper application of the Institution's internal rules and compliance with the law; recalls that, in any case, the conduct concerned was criminal and not merely "unethical" in nature and, therefore, the presence of an ethics body would not have prevented its occurrence; reiterates, for this reason, the need to establish a committee of inquiry to shed light on the political responsibilities resulting from the corruption affair and from the involvement of political figures in this Parliament;

Texto tal como lo publica el PE, en inglés. PE762.578