- EU agencies should tighten their rules to reduce potential conflicts of interest if their senior staff go on to take up private-sector jobs, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in its annual report on the bloc’s agencies.
- Under the existing regulations, EU officials are required to inform the Commission if they plan to take up a job within two years of leaving the EU civil service, and the EU executive can forbid the person from taking the job if it believes that there is a conflict of interests.
- Out of 366 applications for officials from the European Commission to the private sector and 597 applications for employment in the private sector during a leave of absence in 2019, the Commission blocked only six.
EU agencies must tighten rules on revolving doors, watchdog warns
