Within the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies established by, or on the basis of, the Treaties (hereinafter "the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies"), the Office shall conduct administrative investigations for the purpose of: ... investigating to that end serious matters relating to the discharge of professional duties such as to constitute a dereliction of the obligations of officials and other servants of the Communities liable to result in disciplinary or, as the case may be, criminal proceedings, or an equivalent failure to discharge obligations on the part of members of institutions and bodies, heads of offices and agencies or members of the staff of institutions, bodies, offices or agencies not subject to the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities ("the Staff Regulations").
