16 Amendments of Monika HOHLMEIER related to 2015/2110(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
- having regard to the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on combatting terrorism and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the 18-month programme of the EU Council for the Dutch, Slovak and Maltese Presidencies, which puts the comprehensive and integrated approach to organised crime high on its agenda; Points out that the fight against fraud, corruption and money laundering must be a political priority for the EU institutions, and police and judicial cooperation between Member States is therefore crucial
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the phenomena of organised crime, corruption and money laundering usually have a cross-border dimension that requires close cooperation in between the competent national authorities and between national authorities and the relevant EU agencies;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Stresses that illicit trade in firearms, oil, drugs, cigarettes and counterfeit goods and artworks and other cultural objects by networks of organised crime have become very lucrative ways for terrorist groups to obtain funding. Calls on the Member States to take necessary measures, while avoiding undue administrative burden for economic actors, to ensure that terrorist groups and criminal networks may not benefit from any trading in goods; Considers that appropriate due diligence, monitoring and reporting requirements for goods whose trading is considered to be vulnerable to terrorist financing could have a preventative effect by materially impairing the trading activities of organised criminal groups and terrorist groups and by helping to track and prosecute organised crime and other commercial activities of terrorist organisations and criminal crime networks more effectively.
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Points out that money laundering through complex company structures and their integration to legal economic activity can be a threat for the public order of the state; calls on Member States to establish measures, without unduly burdening small and medium sized enterprises, to increase the transparency of monetary actions and to improve the traceability of transactions back to natural persons in order to trace down criminal and terrorist funding ("follow the money" principle). Calls on Member States to take measures which make it more difficult to create complex and dense structures of interlocked companies which by the fact that they tend to be non-transparent can be abused for the financing of criminal or terrorist activities and other serious crimes;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Reiterates the call expressed in its resolution of 23 October 2013 on organised crime, corruption and money laundering: recommendations on action and initiatives to be taken, for the adoption of European Action Plan to eradicate organised crime, corruption and money laundering. Stresses that, in order to ensure its effectiveness, the plan should have adequate financial resources and qualified staff;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the establishment of a specialist Europol unit to combat organised criminal groups which operate in several sectors at the same time; t and via the Internet on a large scale; Stresses the necessity of Member States to exchange information about organized crime networks with each other and via Europol and Eurojust; Takes the view that the Member States should set up a body with responsibility for ensuring that investigations into organised crime are properly coordinated;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission and on Member States to provide Europol and Eurojust with more staff and resources in order for them to be able to fulfil their increasing mandate and to better coordinate efforts made by national authorities in the fight against organised crime and terrorism;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point b
Paragraph 10 – point b
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point c
Paragraph 10 – point c
(c) legislation to protect whistle- blowers, witnesses and persons who cooperate with the judicial process including a definition of "whistle blowers";
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its call for the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor’s Office as an essential piece of the action plan with clearly defined responsibilities and powers; calls on the Member States to provide the necessary human and financial resources for the creation of the EPPO;
Amendment 116 #
12. Deplores the fact that cross-border police and judicial cooperation involvesCalls on the Member States to increase the resources for Europol and Eurojust to strengthen police and judicial cooperation between the Member States and to decrease excessively lengthy, bureaucratic procedures that hamper its efficiency and jeopardise the effectiveness ofin the fight against organised crime at EU level; calls on the Member States to increase the resources they devote to cross- border police and judicial cooperation, to guarantee the mutual admissibility of evidence between Member States, to ensure that greater use is made of joint investigation teams and to employ a common system for communication and for exchanging information relevant to the fight against organised crime and corruption;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that the EU and its Member States should implement properlyIs of the opinion that employing a common method for seizing criminal groups' assets in the EU would be a dissuasive measure for criminals; calls on the Member States to swiftly transpose the Directive 2014/42/EU on the confiscation of assets from crime and to strengthen EU measures concerning the tracing, freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime, and the management of frozen and confiscated property and its re- use for social purposes; ;
Amendment 175 #
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 abolishedhe increasingly complex tax systems in certain Member States opens the possibility for intransparency and disguise of fiscal fraud; Therefore calls on the Member States to establish clear and transparent rules and procedures;