Brussels, 01/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Monday the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee reached an agreement on the conditions that would allow the former official from Directorate General at the European Commission, Marta Andreasen, to explain her findings to MEPs on the holes in the European Commission's accountancy system. Ms Andreasen would be able to submit her concerns to the European Parliament in writing before the Parliament decided whether she was bringing fresh evidence on the deficiencies of the European Commission accountancy system. The Presidents of the Commission and Parliament, Romano Prodi and Pat Cox are expected to jointly outline the legal conditions that would allow the former official (currently dismissed from her job and under disciplinary proceedings) to be heard. "It would have been quite wrong for Parliament to invite Mrs Andreasen to a public hearing without strings attached, as suggested by Tory hotheads" declared the President of the Liberal group, Graham Watson, who welcomed the agreement reached by the Budgetary Control Committee. British Conservative, Chris Heaton-Harris said that he was very satisfied with the agreement, which ought to allow Ms Andreasen to provide proof that the Commission accountancy system "hardly exists". Helmut Kuhne of the SPD stressed, on the other hand, that the attempt made by British Conservatives, Chris Heaton-Harris and James Elles, to invite Ms Andreasen without any preliminary conditions on the matter had failed. He pointed out that the Budgetary Control Committee had asked Ms Andreasen to submit any new elements not raised so far by the Court of Auditors on the accounting system to the Committee, in writing. "On this basis and only on this basis", explained Mr Kuhne, would an invitation be addressed to Ms Andreasen, provided the committee had received a dossier detailing her allegations or containing all relevant documents on the case.