Activities of Monica MACOVEI related to 2009/2167(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on the protection of the Communities' financial interests and the fight against fraud - Annual Report 2008 PDF (205 KB) DOC (120 KB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
New subtitle (before paragraph 20 a)
New subtitle (before paragraph 20 a)
Public procurement
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Notes that public procurement is the area most vulnerable to mismanagement, fraud and corruption, which distort the market, increase the prices paid by consumers for goods and services, and negatively affect the confidence of citizens in the Union; notes that effective Community legislation regarding public procurement, and its trustworthy enforcement, contribute to the protection of the financial interests of the Union; calls on the Commission and Member States to design, implement and periodically evaluate uniform systems of procurement to prevent fraud and corruption, to define and implement clear conditions for participation in public procurement, and criteria on which public procurement decisions are made, and also to adopt and implement systems to review public procurement decisions at the national level, to ensure transparency and accountability in public finances, and to adopt and implement risk management and internal control systems;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Calls on the Commission to begin early discussions and consultations with interested stakeholders, including civil society, on all aspects related to the creation of the European Prosecutor´s Office for combating crimes affecting the financial interests of the Union, as provided for in Article 86 of the TFEU, and to step up the adoption of all necessary measures for establishing this office;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
New subtitle (before paragraph 20 c)
New subtitle (before paragraph 20 c)
Fraud prevention and Transparency measures
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Welcomes the progress on transparency of EU funds beneficiaries; notes that the Commission should take further action to ensure one-stop transparency of the beneficiaries of EU- funds; calls on the Commission to design measures to increase the transparency of legal arrangements and a system where all beneficiaries of EU funds are published on the same website, independently of the administrator of the funds and based on standard categories of information to be provided by all Member States in at least one working language of the Union; calls on the Member States to cooperate with and provide to the Commission full and reliable information regarding the beneficiaries of the EU funds managed by Member States; invites the Commission to evaluate the system of ‘shared management’ and provide Parliament with a report;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)
Paragraph 20 d (new)
20d. Calls on the Council to complete the conclusion of the Cooperation Agreements with Liechtenstein in the shortest possible time and urges the Council Presidency to give the Commission a mandate to negotiate anti- fraud agreements with Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Switzerland;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 e (new)
Paragraph 20 e (new)
20e. Calls on the Commission and Member States to include the beneficiaries of EU funds managed in partnership with the EU Member States, mainly agricultural and structural funds, into the Early Warning System and Central Exclusion Database, based on identical criteria for all Member States;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
New subtitle (before paragraph 20 f)
New subtitle (before paragraph 20 f)
Combating financial fraud and the fight against corruption
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 f (new)
Paragraph 20 f (new)
20f. Notes that 78 % of Union citizens agree that corruption is a major concern in their country and that 76 % of the Union citizens agree that there is corruption within the institutions of the EU (Eurobarometer, 2009); calls on the Commission, the relevant Union agencies and the Member States to take measures and provide resources to ensure that EU funds are not subject to corruption, to adopt dissuasive sanctions where corruption and fraud are found, to step up the confiscation of criminal assets involved in fraud, tax evasion and money- laundering related crimes, and to apply clear and transparent rules with regard to politically-exposed persons, as defined in the Third Money Laundering Directive (Directive 2005/60/EC); welcomes the invitation from the European Council on the Stockholm Programme to the Commission to develop indicators to precisely quantify the efforts in the fight against corruption, in particular in the areas of public procurement and financial control, and calls on the Commission to act upon it as a matter of priority;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
New Subtitle (before paragraph 20 g)
New Subtitle (before paragraph 20 g)
Reinforced fight against financial and economic crime
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 g (new)
Paragraph 20 g (new)
20g. Emphasises that the active protection of the EU’s financial interests requires a reinforced fight against financial and economic crime; calls on the Member States to fully implement the relevant Union instruments, including the 2000 Mutual Legal Assistance Convention and its Protocol on banking transactions, the Framework Decision on confiscation orders (2006/783/JHA) and the Framework Decision on Financial Penalties (2005/214/JHA);
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 h (new)
Paragraph 20 h (new)
20h. Calls on the Commission to develop a proposal on the mutual recognition of disqualifications, in particular for professions in the financial area, such as the exclusion of fraudulent offenders from acting as chief executives;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 i (new)
Paragraph 20 i (new)
20i. Calls on the Commission to develop an impact assessment and a proposal to extend the EU acquis on common definitions of offences in the area of financial and economic crime;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 j (new)
Paragraph 20 j (new)
20j. Calls on the Commission and Member States to enhance their capacity for financial investigation and combine all available instruments in fiscal, civil and criminal law; calls for stronger cooperation between Asset Recovery Offices, so that the confiscation of assets becomes more efficient;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 k (new)
Paragraph 20 k (new)
20k. Considers that stopping tax evasion and illicit activities that go through offshore havens is necessary in order to protect the financial interests of the Union; calls on the Commission to consider banning companies which operate through offshore havens from making business agreements with companies residing in the European Union if their offshore location will unilaterally delay the adoption of cooperation agreements with the Union;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to actively include OLAF in the negotiation of all Cooperation Agreements that deal with the combating of fraud and with the exchange of information on tax matters;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on OLAF to present, in its future annual report, a detailed analysis of the strategies and measures put in place by each Member State in the fight against fraud and for preventing and identifying irregularities in the expenditure of European funds, including where they are caused by corruption; considers that specific attention should be paid to the implementation of agricultural and structural funds; takes the view that the report, with 27 country profiles, should analyse the approach followed by national judicial and investigating bodies and the quantity and quality of controls performed, as well as statistics and reasons in the cases where national authorities did not file indictments following reports by OLAF; considers, therefore, that the report should provide a knowledge basis for better defining OLAF’s strategy and improving cooperation with the Member States and the efficiency of both OLAF and national investigative authorities;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Notes that Community legislation requires Member States to report all irregularities no later than two months after the end of the quarter in which an irregularity has been subject to a primary administrative or judicial finding and/or new information about a reported irregularity becomes known; calls on the Member States to make all the necessary efforts, including the streamlining of national administrative procedures, to meet the required deadlines and reduce the time gap between the moment a irregularity is identified and that when it is reported; calls on the Member States to act primarily as a protector of taxpayers’ money in their efforts to combat fraud;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Calls on the Commission to restart the procedure for the adoption of the Directive on criminal-law protection of the Communities’ financial interests (2001/0115(COD)), blocked by the Council since 2002, and of the Regulation on mutual administrative assistance for the protection of the Communities’ financial interests (2004/0172 (COD)), blocked by the Council since 2005;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)