5 Amendments of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2016/2033(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to reinforce the exchange of information and to coordinate the strategies of national authorities and European bodies, such as Europol, Eurojust and OLAF aiming at fight against fraud, money laundering and organised crime;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deems it crucial to ensure the establishment of a single, strong and independent European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) that is able to investigate, prosecute and bring to court the perpetrators of criminal offences affecting the Union’s financial interests, as defined in the above-mentioned PIF Directive, and believes that any weaker solution would represent a cost to the Union budget. Stresses the need to ensure that the sharing of competence between the EPPO and the Member States does not lead to offences with a significant impact on the EU budget being excluded from the EPPO's competence.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Regrets that VAT fraud, and in particular the so-called ‘carousel’ or missing trader fraud, distorts competition and deprives national budgets of significant resources as well as being detrimental to the Union budget; is concerned that the Commission has no reliable data on VAT carousel fraud; therefore, calls on the Commission to launch a coordinated effort by Member States to establish a joint system of collecting statistics on VAT carousel fraud. This system could build upon the already-used practices in some Member States.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to initiate the establishment of a common system to refine the estimation of the size of intra-EU VAT fraud, which would allow Member States to evaluate their performance against precise and reliable indicators related to the reductionin terms of reducing the incidence of intra- EU VAT fraud and the increasing of fraud detection and correlative tax recovery; takes the view that new auditing approaches such as the single audit or joint audits should be further extended for cross- border operations;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16 d. Stresses the need to grant OLAF clear competences and tools to investigate VAT fraud.