
At the invitation of the Government of Timor-Leste, the European Union established a mission to observe the elections for the Constituent Assembly in Timor-Leste on 30 August 2001.
The EU EOM is headed by Chief Observer Wolfgang Kreissl-Doerfler, MEP (DE), a member of the European Parliament (MEP).
The observers were deployed throughout the country. They met government and electoral officials, candidates and political parties, civil society representatives and the media.