El Director General de Personal cuando se concedió el contrato para gestionar la guardería, Steffen Smidt, que ha sido recompensado con la actual Dirección General de Pesca, no anuló dicho contrato en 1997, al conocerse los gravísimos hechos ocurridos en la guardería, renovándolo en 1998 hasta julio de 2000.
Steffen Smidt, who was Director-General for Personnel when the contract to manage the crèche was awarded and has since been appointed to run the Directorate-General for Fisheries, did not annul the said contract in 1997 when the serious incidents at the crèche came to light. The contract was in fact renewed in 1998 and runs until the year 2000.