Follow-up reporting
Article 4
1. Where some of the information referred to in Article 3(2), in particular information concerning the practices employed in committing the irregularity and the manner in which it was discovered, is not available or needs to be rectified, Member States shall provide the missing or correct information in follow-up reports of irregularities to the Commission. 2. Member States shall keep the Commission informed on the initiation, conclusion or abandonment of any procedures or proceedings for imposing administrative measures, administrative penalties or criminal penalties with regard to the reported irregularities, as well as the outcome of those procedures or proceedings. With regard to irregularities for which penalties have been imposed, Member States shall also indicate: (a) whether the penalties are of an administrative or a criminal nature; (b) whether the penalties result from a breach of Union or national law and details of the penalties; (c) whether fraud was established. 3. At the Commission's written request the Member State shall provide information in relation to a specific irregularity or group of irregularities.