Activities of Vlad GHEORGHE related to 2022/0398(COD)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Definition of criminal offences and penalties for the violation of Union restrictive measures
Amendments (3)
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point h – point i
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point h – point i
(i) concealing funds, including moving, transfering, altering, using, accessing, dealing with, selling, hiring or mortgaging funds or economic resources owned, held, or controlled by a designated person, entity or body, which should be frozen in accordance with a Union restrictive measure, by the transfer of those funds, or economic resources to a thirdin any way that would result in any change in their volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character, destination or any other change that would enable the funds to be used, including paortyfolio management;
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article3a Definition of public official For the purposes of this Directive, ‘public official’ means: (a) a Union official or a national official, including any national official of another Member State and any national official of a third country: (i) ‘Union official’ means a person who is: — an official or other servant engaged under contract by the Union within the meaning of the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union laid down in Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 (16) (the ‘Staff Regulations’), or — seconded to the Union by a Member State or by any public or private body, who carries out functions equivalent to those performed by Union officials or other servants; (ii) ‘national official’ shall be understood by reference to the definition of ‘official’ or ‘public official’ in the national law of the Member State or third country in which the person in question carries out his or her functions. The term ‘national official’ shall include any person holding an executive, administrative or judicial office at national, regional or local level. Any person holding a legislative office at national, regional or local level shall be assimilated to a national official; (b) any other person assigned and exercising a public service function involving the execution of Union restrictive measures in Member States or third countries.’
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5
Article 5 – paragraph 5
(5) Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that natural persons who have committed the offences referred to in Articles 3 and 4 may be subject to additional penalties. Those additional penalties shall include finesmaximum fines of at least EUR 10 000 000 when these offences involve funds or economic resources of a value of at least EUR 100 000.