5 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2020/2221(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that organised crime is involved in increasingly sophisticated fraudulent activities, such as cybercrime, which deprive the legal economy of considerable resources, particularly at difficult times like the present; points out that cybercrime costs the EU Member States EUR 265 billion per year1a and has a devastating impact on each EU Member State. _________________ 1a https://www.thehaguesecuritydelta.com/pa rtners/partner/137-europol
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that there are at least 20 million cases of petty corruption in the Union public sector and that, clearly, this spills over into the Member State public authorities responsible for managing EU funds and other financial interests;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that organised criminal groups take advantage of the different laws in individual Member States, and that the development of a harmonised anti-fraud approach at EU level is complicated by differing definitions of organised crime; reiterates therefore its previous calls for the revision of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA of 24 October 2008, and the need to establish a common definition of organised crime, which should also take into account the use of violence, corruption or intimidation by criminal groups to obtain control of economic activities or public procurement, or to influence democratic processese importance of cooperation among the different judicial systems in the Member States in making the fight against organised crime more effective;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that fraud prevention and the fight against fraud by organised crime should be a priority focus of managing, certifying and audit authorities, as well as being the subject of specialised financial investigations; believes that the fight against organised criminal groups also requires enhanced rules and measures regarding the freezing and confiscation of assets; calls on the Member States to build upon their administrative, judicial and police cooperation in order to trace criminal assets across the EU, so they can be seized and confiscated;