20. Recalls that, following the recommendatio
ns developed by the Committee of Independent
Experts in its 2nd Report of 10 September 1999 and the Commission's White Paper on administrative reform, the Commission drew u
p a proposal for an Advisory Committee on Standards in Public Life, one of whose tasks would be to provide guidance in advance to public office-holders to help them avoid situations entailing a potential conflict of in
...[+++]terests;