Subject to the conditions and limits laid down by the Treaties referred to in Article 1 and in the course of its duties, the European Parliament may, at the request of one quarter of its Members, set up a temporary committee of inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions or maladministration in the implementation of Community law which would appear to be the act of an institution or a body of the European Communities, of a public administrative body of a Member State or of persons empowered by Community law to implement that law.
Faoi réir na gcoinníollacha agus na dteorainneacha atá leagtha síos leis na Conarthaí dá dtagraítear in Airteagal 1 agus i gcúrsa a dualgas, féadfaidh Parlaimint na hEorpa, arna iarraidh sin ag an gceathrú cuid dá Feisirí, coiste sealadach fiosrúcháin a chur ar bun chun imscrúdú a dhéanamh ar sháruithe líomhnaithe nó ar dhrochriarachán líomhnaithe le linn dlí an Chomhphobail a chur chun feidhme, ar nithe iad ar dealraitheach iad a bheith ina ngníomh de chuid institiúide nó comhlachta de chuid na gComhphobal Eorpach, nó de chuid chomhlachta riaracháin phoiblí Ballstáit, nó de chuid daoine a bhfuil an chumhacht acu, faoi dhlí an Chomhphobail, chun an dlí sin a chur chun feidhme.