File concerning the resignation of Jacques Santer's Commission, includes: Confidential Tribunal evidence of Claude Perry, Director of Perry Lux ltd (Luxembourg) and choronology of his contacts with Commissioner Edith Cresson and the Scientific Advisor René Berthelot; Testimony of André Hardy giving details of Perry's relations with the HARCO group (expertise programme for Africa); Request for dismissal by Renate Schmidt of European Commissioners Manuel Marin and Edith Cresson, 31 Dec 1998; Notes by the Director of ECHO ( European Commission Humanitarian Office) Santiago Gomez-Reino on the relations between ECHO and the ONG; Note for the attention of Members of the PES parliamentary group on documents presented by the Commission at the press conference held in response to the allegations of mismanagement directed at it; Declaration of support from the EP Green Party for Paul van Buitenen, suspended from his functions by the Commisssion; Proposal for a EP resolution on the improvement of financial management of the Commission; Declaration of the PPE group on the institution of a Committee of Independent Experts to resolve the crisis and examine the management of the Commission; Note by Julian Priestly, Secretary General of the EP, on the terms of reference of the Committee of Independent Experts called for in the resolution adopted by the Parliament on 14 January 1999 on improving the management of the European Commission; Confidential note to the EP Commission of Budgetary Control on the case of fraud revealed by the UCLAF in the management of LEONARDO(confidential); Information note by Isabella Ventura, Director General of DG XX (financial control) of the EP, concerning special audits in progress or completed from Oct to Dec 1998 (confidential); Questionnaire of the EP Commission of Budgetary Control to Commissioner Edith Cresson; Statement of Edith Cresson before the EP Committee of Budgetary Control concerning the management of the LEONARDO programme; Audit report by DG XXII concerning the BAT Leonardo da Vinci (Vocational Educational Programmes). Contract with Agenor (outsourcing technical assistance) (confidential); EC Tribunal sentences for Hubert Onidii and Albano Ferre de Moncada (confidential) ; Press cuttings

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