Mr. Tony Murphy:

I do not know whether that will change in the foreseeable future. That is obviously a political decision. For us the EPPO has its own mandate and in terms of the work we differentiate between EPPO and OLAF because the latter covers all the member states, whereas EPPO would only cover the affiliated member states. There is no difference for us and we have a memorandum of understanding and a working relationship with both. EPPO's office is across the road from us in Luxembourg, so we have good contact with it. In time, there will be a clearer demarcation of the types of cases EPPO will do compared with OLAF because EPPO has criminal investigative powers in the different states whereas OLAF does not have those direct powers. It is, therefore, a different set-up.