22 Amendments of Caterina CHINNICI related to 2015/2110(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas protection of the financial interests of the EU should guarantee that budget revenue and expenditure contribute towards the achievement of the EU's priorities and objectives and towards increasing the confidence of citizens by assuring them that their money is being used in full compliance with the aims and policies of the EU;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the diversity of legal and administrative systems in the Member States presents a challenging environment in which to overcome organised crime and combat money laundering;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas in order to enhance the existing measures such as the Convention on the Protection of the Communities' Financial Interests (PIF Convention) for fighting fraud, corruption, money laundering and other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the Union, the Commission has submitted two proposals for criminal law instruments, the PIF Directive and the Regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO Regulation), aimed at ensuring more effective investigation and better protection of the taxpayers' money throughout the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the fight against fraud, corruption and money laundering and recovery of money from crime in the Union must be a priority for political action by the Community institutions, and police and judicial cooperation between Member States is therefore crucial;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas the ability of criminal organizations to adapt their action to different territorial and social contexts, allows them to diversify their activities by realizing significant profits from drug trafficking, human trafficking, waste trafficking and illegal immigration, and to infiltrate in legal markets relying on a "grey zone" of collusion with white collars and corrupted civil servants;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
(1) Calls for the adoption of a common definition of organized crime at the European level as an essential step for enhancing the fight against this phenomenon;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that the Commission has proposed a vast array of measures to combat these crimes and that some results are already available (i.e. automatic information exchange, anti-money laundering directive); and considers essential to promote common investigative techniques to contrast organized crime and to establish specific national structures to this end, developing, an operational network for the exchange of information in coordination with Europol;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes note of the on-going discussions in the Council on the draft regulation establishing the European public prosecutor’s office (EPPO) as an essential piece of the action plan and recognizes that the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor Office, provided with the necessary human and financial resources, is essential for an effective action against frauds to financial interests of the European Union;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that a common method for seizing criminal group’s assets in the EU could be a dissuasive measure for criminals; invites the Member States competent authorities to share best practices in this area within the existing meetings platforms, such as the Advisory Committee for the Coordination of Fraud Prevention (COCOLAF) and others; calls Member States to swiftly transpose the directive on the confiscation of assets from crime and to promote the re-use of confiscated assets for social purposes, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity; and to support a European program for the exchange of good practices for the management of confiscated assets, promoting their use for social purposes;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 1 (new)
Paragraph 8 – indent 1 (new)
– Invites Member States to develop administrative, police and judicial cooperation to trace the criminal assets throughout the Union for seizure and confiscation relying on the improvement of Assets Recovery of Offices, which should be provided with adequate resources.
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for Member States to invest more heavily in fostering a culture of legality, particularly considering that the first and most effective form of prevention consists in educating new generations of EU citizens;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Points out that programs such as Hercule, Fiscalis, Pericles and Directive proposed by the European Commission in February 2013 in order to protect the financial interests of the EU and the euro against counterfeiting, they are designed to combat illegal, international and cross- border criminal activity and calls for their rationalization and for more coordination;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to publish its second Anti-corruption Report without delay.
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point b
Paragraph 10 – point b
(b) a definition of 'public official'; to be adopted, bearing in mind that the Directive on the Protection of the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law ("PIF Directive") proposes to establish such a definition;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its call for the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor’s Office with clearly defined responsibilities and powers;, to be adopted as soon as possible with the participation of as many Member States as possible with clearly defined responsibilities and powers detailing how the new Office would complement and synergize the work of OLAF, Eurojust and the Member States, thus, preventing the overlapping of the spheres of competences of the different agencies and bodies
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. In that context, since the offences for which the future European Public Prosecutor's Office would be responsible will be laid down in the PIF Directive, calls on the Council and Member States to unblock negotiations on the PIF Directive as quickly as possible, and in that regard, include VAT fraud within the scope of the Directive;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to takadopt specific legislation and to take appropriate measures to curb the activities of professionals, banks, civil servants and politicians, who, although not members of criminal organisations, support them at various levels;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Condemns criminal interests that revolve around gambling, including lawful gambling,and points out that often even lawful gambling, can be used for money laundering and reinvestment purposes and therefore represents a source of relevant profit for criminal groups and urges the Commission to introduce legislation to combat and prevent this phenomenon;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Points out that tax havens are ideal places in which to collect and launder the proceeds of criminal activities, and as such should be abolishedthat countering such phenomenon needs a common regulation and a coordinated approach at the EU level;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Notes the Commission's intention to propose a revision to the 4th Anti- money laundering Directive. Calls on the Commission, in that revision, to ensure that registries of beneficial owners cover all forms of legal entities, including trusts, and provide adequate transparency guarantees with regard to the information contained in those registries;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Points out that the complex activities of criminal organisationparticipation in criminal activities often prepare the ground for identity-basedlater involvement in terrorismt group; believes that if the fight against terrorism is to be effective, EU legislation on combating organised crime needs to be strengthened, also considering the existing links between terrorist and organized criminal group, based on mutual benefit;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Condemns the way in which organised crime has infiltrated the bodies responsible for managing funds for the reception of migrants, and calls for specific measures to combat trafficking in human beings, which is mostly conducted by criminal groupomplex networks of criminal groups located in Countries of origin, transit and destination of the victims;