Includes: note from Santiago Gómez-Reino on external staff; fax from Alexander Schaub, Director General DG IV (Competition) designating two officials to participate in the audit of contracts concluded by ECHO before and after 1996; Rapport spécial no. 2/97 on approaches by the European Community to Humanitarian Aid and the organisation of ECHO; Rapport Initial on an inspection of ECHO by a team from the Inspecteur général des Services, loooking into organisation and management, and the coordination and evaluation of aid (annex 1: "Mandat" marked CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); Internal audit of Echo carried out by DG XX for Financial Control (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); copy of UCLAF report on ECHO and requests for information on certain ECHO contracts (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); note from Santiago Gómez-Reino "Inspection 'Le foncitionnement de l'Office Humanitaire de la Communauté Européenne'" (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); UCLAF report re ECHO contracts with comments from Santiago Gómez-Reino and Alberto Navarro, Director of ECHO (comments marked CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice).

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