Activities of Steeve BRIOIS related to 2015/2128(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual report 2014 on the Protection of the EU's financial interests - Fight against fraud (A8-0026/2016 - Benedek Jávor) FR
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the Annual Report as the first by this Commission; stresses that the protection of the EU’s and Member States’ financial interests is at the core of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Unionessential; notes that through a number of measures the Commission and the Member States have increased their effectiveness in fighting the overall rate of fraudulent or non-fraudulent irregularities in order to ensure that EU funds are protected from fraud; notes a total of 1 649 cases of irregularities reported as fraudulent,; observes with some concern that this beingis 2 % more than in 2013 and representings EUR 538 million in EU funds;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that around 28 % of irregularities reported as fraudulent in 2014 were detected by anti-fraud bodies or during criminal investigations or other external controls;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes with some concern that cases of fraud are, on average, reported twelve months after first being detected, and that irregular practices are, on average, first detected six and a half years after having taken place;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes, on th with some cone hand, that once again cohesion policy is not the area with the highest number of irregularities reported as fraudulent, and, on the other hand, thatcern that the number of irregularities in the area of cohesion policy represents the highest proportion of the total number of irregularities reported; observes that while the largest proportion of such irregularities in this policy area concern the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the amounts involved concern, in the main, the Cohesion Fund;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that measures to detect irregularities continue to vary between Member States, mainly on account of differing definitions of irregularities; welcomestakes note of the preventive and corrective measures taken by the Commission to avoid fraudulent irregularities, including by interrupting 193 payments under the cohesion policy; notes with some concern that some preventive and corrective measures could prove detrimental to national budgets, especially in those Member States facing budgetary difficulties;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that in 2014 the Commission applied financial corrections totalling more than EUR 2.2 billion, and issued recovery orders for EUR 736 million; notes with some concern that national budgets risk not recovering the amounts that have already been unduly paid to beneficiaries and that are subject to financial corrections;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that, pursuant to the Common Provisions Regulation requires, managing authorities musto put in place effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures; calls on the Commission to reinforce preventive action, in particular byand strengthening the its technical and administrative capacities of managing authorities to ensure more robusteffective control systems able to reduce the risks of fraud and increase detection capacity; encourages Member States to reinforce their control systems;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. AppreciatesTakes note of the Commission’s decision to carry out a mid-term assessment in 2018 in order to establish whether the new regulatory architecture for the cohesion policy prevents fraud and reduces the risk of irregularities; calls on the Council to endorse the proposal for a directive on the fight against fraud to the EU’s financial interests by means of criminal law.