{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-561/article-14",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/561",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 561/2014 of 6 May 2014 establishing the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-561",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Protection of the Union’s financial interests",
  "text": "1. The ECSEL Joint Undertaking shall grant Commission staff and other persons authorised by the ECSEL Joint Undertaking or the Commission, as well as the Court of Auditors, access to its sites and premises and to all the information, including information in electronic format, needed in order to conduct their audits.\n2. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) may carry out investigations, including on-the-spot checks and inspections, in accordance with the provisions and procedures laid down in Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, with a view to establishing whether there has been fraud, corruption or any other illegal activity affecting the Union’s financial interests in connection with an agreement, decision or contract funded under this Regulation.\n3. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2, agreements, decisions and contracts resulting from the implementation of this Regulation shall contain provisions expressly empowering the Commission, the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, the Court of Auditors and OLAF to conduct such audits and investigations, according to their respective competences.\n4. The ECSEL Joint Undertaking shall ensure that the financial interests of its members are adequately protected by carrying out or commissioning appropriate internal and external controls.\n5. The ECSEL Joint Undertaking shall accede to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 25 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission concerning internal investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). The ECSEL Joint Undertaking shall adopt the necessary measures to facilitate internal investigations conducted by OLAF.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November 1996 concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities’ financial interests against fraud and other irregularities (OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (Euratom) No 1074/1999 (OJ L 248, 18.9.2013, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 136, 31.5.1999, p. 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/561/article/14",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}