Brussels, 04/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - The EP Committee on Budgetary Control (COCBU) decided, on 3 May, to form a working group chaired by its president, Szabolcs Fazakas (PES, Hungary), tasked with gathering information about the allegations regarding the Parliament's buildings in Strasbourg (from the EP administration, the town of Strasbourg and the real-estate firm, SCI-Erasme) (see EUROPE 9181). Composed of ten members, this working group will facilitate Cocobu's work on the discharge to be granted to the EP on execution of the 2004 budget, deferred by six months on 27 April to allow for full light to be shed on the price of the buildings in Strasbourg that the EP hopes to buy. This working group will keep Cocobu regularly informed of the way its inquiry is developing. Furthermore, Cocobu and the EP Budgets Committee plan to invite Fabienne Keller, Mayor of Strasbourg, on 15 May to hear any explanation that she wishes to give on the project to purchase the buildings in question.