European Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud

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Siim Kallas
Barroso Commission, 2004 to 2009

The Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit, & Anti-Fraud is the member of the European Commission. The current commissioner is Siim Kallas (ALDE).

The portfolio is responsible for the administration of the Commission, including management of some of the Commission's Internal Services.

1 Responsibilities
2 Current commissioner
3 List of commissioners
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Responsibilities

Particularly, responsibility is for: Consolidation of Administrative Reform, Personnel and Administration, European Schools, Budgetary discharge, Internal Audit, Fight against Fraud and Security.

The Commissioner is also responsible for the following departments; the Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlement, the Directorate-General for Informatics, the Internal Audit Service, the Office of Infrastructure and Logistics, (relations with) the European Personnel Selection Office and the European Anti-fraud Office [1].

[edit] Current commissioner

Commissioner Kallas was approved by the European Parliament in 2004 and made a Vice-President in the Barroso Commission. It was the first time the post had covered Anti-Fraud. His priorities are: to "consolidate the administrative reform" that would come closer to the citizens; accountability, efficiency and sound management; eradicating corruption and mismanagement [2].