Michael Buschheuer, president of  the NGO Sea-Eye, one of the organizations operating to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, rejected the claims during a meeting with the Italian Parliament's Schengen Committee. Buschheuer  offered Frontex and other EU organizations "the possibility of seeing what we do". He said the organization was willing to make changes, if necessary, because "we don't want to favor traffickers".Buschheuer made the statements during an audition at the committee to control the implementation of the Schengen agreement of the Italian Parliament. Cooperation with the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Rome Sea-Eye, its president said, works in close contact with the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) in Rome, which coordinates search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.Buschheuer said the NGO gets 50% of reports on situations of danger from MRCC. The remaining rescue operations are either prompted by direct sightings or communications coming from "dozens of organizations, Navy and commercial vessels", he added. The organization's president expressed support for the Italian coast guards and navy while denouncing that "nobody has on the agenda to aid and rescue people at sea". 'NGO does not take people to Italy' Buschheuer said Sea-Eye vessels "have never transported anyone to Italy". He said migrants are helped either on their boats, if possible, or on the NGO's vessels. He added, however, that "we don't think taking people to Italy is wrong", nor to other European or African countries.The NGO is "exclusively funded by private donors or small entrepreneurs" with "no political or public funding,"according to Buschheuer. NGOs 'Not welcome' in the Mediterranean Another NGO working to assist migrants stranded in the Mediterranean, the Spanish rescue charity Proactiva Open Arms, has also denied the allegations. "It is clear that Frontex's strategy of pointing the finger at has not other objective but to call into legality of operations" Proactiva Opens Arms director Oscar Camps told dpa. He claimed that Frontex does not want NGOs to be operating in the Mediterranean because they get in the way of measures to seal off the EU's southern border. Opens Arms has received less money in donations since the allegations and experienced hostility when its boats dock at ports in Sicily. Frontex has opened into an informal investigation into where NGOs like Proactiva Open Arms receive their funding. "We have 35,000 donors. Some are well known,  such as Pep Guardiola, the current manager of Manchester City, while  others are anonymous," Camps said. He says his organization has nothing to hide. Wesley Dockery with ANSA