10 Amendments of Jean-François JALKH related to 2021/2234(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Is of the opinion that EU institutions and bodies should put more emphasis on the funds spent in non-EU countries in order to verify that those funds are spent in accordance with the rules and without the involvement of fraud or corruption, and to confirm whether they contribute to the goals of the Union’s development and external policy; reminds that the budgetary support to other countries is financed from the general EU budget and the ECA audit cannot trace what happens beyond the moment the Commission pays aid to the recipient country, since these funds then merge with that country’s own budget resources;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Regrets that little support has been given to Member States in the first years of implementation of the CAFS, as has also been pointed out by some delegations during debates in the Council; reiterates that comprehensive and comparable data on the scale, nature and causes of fraud is essential to make even more meaningful the investigative actions by OLAF and, since it has taken up operational activities, the EPPO;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Is concerned about the decrease of the indictment rate from 53 % in the 2007- 2014 period to 37 % in the 2016-2020 period in the cases put forward to the Member States by OLAF; calls on the Member States’ authorities to cooperate closely with OLAF and examine the transmitted investigation reports and the judicial recommendations carefully, and to open criminal cases wherever they are necessary to ensure that misused EU funds are recovered; invites OLAF to investigate the reasons for the low indictment rate; calls on OLAF to regularly follow up on its judicial recommendations and add data about them into its annual report;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Welcomes the joint efforts of OLAF and Europol to assess the threats and vulnerabilities of the RRF instrument, and requires great vigilance in identifying and combating fraud related to the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. WelcomNotes the adoption of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget; reiterates that it entered into force on 1 January 2021 and that it has therefore been applicable since then;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Recognises the importance of the annual rule of law report and the fact that the fight against corruption is an integral part of the report; is of the opinion, however, that it cannot substitute the anti- corruption report; welcomes the Commission’s intention to equip the rule of law report with specific recommendations to the Member Statesfight against corruption;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Considers that the financing of the EU has entered a new era with the adoption of the NextGenerationEU recovery plan and that this provides the EU’s anti-fraud architecture with additional challenges; is therefore strongly of the opinion that the anti-fraud architecture needs to be further strengthened; stresses that OLAF, the EPPO, Europol and Eurojust are understaffed and lacking in financial resources; reminds the Commission and the Council that every euro spent on monitoring and investigation returns to the EU budget;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Notes the need for a specific annual Commission report on the analysis and state of play of the overall anti-fraud infrastructure, assessing, among other things, the level of interoperability of EU actors in the fight against fraud, and addressing possible links with the European Semesters and, country reports, and the anti- corruption report, and the application of the Rule of Law Conditionality mechanism;