Article 6 The use of the EWS

Information stored in the EWS may be used only for the purpose of the implementation of the budget or of any other fund managed by the Union. This shall not affect the information contained in the central exclusion database (hereinafter ‘CED’) referred to in Article 1(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1302/2008^f1.

OLAF may use the information contained in the EWS and the CED for its investigations pursuant to Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by OLAF and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 (‘OLAF Regulation’), and for fraud prevention activities, including risk analysis.