On 1st Septembre 2009, Algirdas Šemeta, Member designate of the EC in charge of Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud, went to the Committee on Budgets (COBU) and the Committee on Budgetary Control (COCOBU) of the European Parliament to make a statement and answer the questions in the field of his responsibilities, as a new Member of the EC. On 21 January 2010, he went to the bookstore "Filigranes" in Brussels