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Definition ad hoc team, consisting of elements with relevant expertise and headed by a designated chief of the fact-finding mission (Chief of FFM), which is tasked with collecting and assessing all required information and/or with executing other specified tasks (according to a given mandate) in a defined crisis area to which it is deployed and where possible European Union involvement in the management of the crisis is envisaged Reference Council-EN, based on: EU crisis management and conflict prevention - Guidelines on Fact-finding Missions http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/02/st15/st15461.en02.pdf
Definition occasion when a person or group goes somewhere to collect information about the way an enterprise's activities are run, usually in the context of an audit exercise Reference COM-EN, based on:"fact-finding mission", Cambridge Business English Dictionary, Cambridge University Press. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english/fact-finding-mission [7.4.2014]
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Context 'Le linn achainíocha a imscrúdú, fíorais a shuíomh nó réitigh a lorg, féadfaidh an coiste cuairteanna aimsithe faisnéise chuig an mBallstát nó chuig an réigiún lena mbaineann an achainí a eagrú.' Reference 'Rialacha Nós Imeachta - 7ú téarma parlaiminteach, Márta 2011', Parlaimint na hEorpa, http://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/122785c6-560f-4d98-b602-f8188554e7db.0011.02/DOC_1 [27.10.2016]