11 Amendments of Tamás DEUTSCH related to 2020/2126(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that the existing regulatory environment, including Member State and Community rules against trusts, monopolies and cartels, and the rules on the exclusion of valid economic and political conflicts of interest, provided an appropriate legal environment until it became necessary for certain groups to seek to shape EU financial regulations to achieve political ends, driven by obvious political will and even using undemocratic means and disregarding the Treaty;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that no financial control instrument or rule should become a political instrument, that they should be applied in a regulatory way, based solely on objective criteria, and that no new legal approach should be used to discriminate against individuals or groups on the basis of objective or political criteria;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Considers that better enforcement of the EU’s existing financial rules and enhanced application of its existing control tools, as well as wider use of various digital tools such as the EDES and IMS systems, could also help to enforce compliance with conflict of interest rules;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that five Member States do not currently participate in the EPPO; welcomes the conclusion of working arrangements between the EPPO and Hungary; calls on the other non- participating Member States to establish working arrangements with the EPPO in order to avoid gaps in the detection of organised crime and fraud;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines that the Commission should use all the instruments available under EU financial legislation and the applicable sector-specific and financial rules to effectively protect the EU budget, including interruption of payment deadlines, suspension of payments, financial corrections or exclusion of expenditure from EU financing, infringement proceedings under Article 258 TFEU, checks and audits or, in duly justified cases, the application of Article 7 TEU addressing risks to the foundational values of the EU in the Member States, as has recently been done in the cases of Poland and Hungary;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for the use of the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES) to be made compulsory under shared management; further notes that the EDES does not distinguish between subsidiaries of larger corporations; calls for the mandatoryextensive use of the Arachne data mining and data enrichment tool by Member States in order to achieve more transparency on the beneficiaries of CAP funds;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Notes that the first priority should be to reform the current control mechanisms and instruments, to make them more effective and to extend their scope, and considers that new rules and instruments should be introduced only when existing structures have proved inadequate to combat fraud and conflicts of interest;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Warns against any initiative to create new instruments or control systems, especially those that could lead to the duplication of existing structures, the creation of parallel structures and excessive budgetary expenditure, as well as unnecessary administrative burdens;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Concludes that even though the new MFF uses certain tools such as increased amounts budgeted for special instruments and a budgetary mechanism to uphold the rule of law, there is still space for additional tools to strengthen anti-oligarch practices which could be addressed in the framework of the upcoming revision of the Financial Regulation;