4 Amendments of Zigmantas BALČYTIS related to 2016/2055(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas whistle-blowers therefore play an important role in detecting and reporting irregularities in respect of the expenditures relating to the EU budget, as well as in identifying and publicising cases of corruption;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas most EU Member States have ratified the UN Convention against Corruption, which makes it obligatory to provide appropriate and effective protection to whistle-blowers;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. Notes that only a few EU Member States have introduced sufficiently advanced whistle-blower protection systems;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal as rapidly as possible establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistle-blower protection programme and, in particular, calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal before the end of this year protecting whistle-blowers as part of the necessary measures in the fields of the prevention of and fight against fraud affecting the financial interests of the Union, with a view to affording effective and equivalent protection in the Member States and in all the Union’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies;