Article 15 Assessment of exclusion warnings by central services

Before requesting an exclusion warning for the cases referred to in Article 106(1)(b), (c) and (e) and Article 109(1) proposed by the authorising officer responsible and its appropriate duration a centralised assessment by the Directorate-General for Budget and the Legal Service shall be carried out. Where the exclusion warning proposed by the authorising officer responsible is based on information transmitted by OLAF, this assessment shall be made in close cooperation with OLAF.