6 Amendments of Anthea McINTYRE related to 2011/0449(COD)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The financial interests of the Union should be protected through proportionate measures throughout the expenditure cycle, including the prevention, detection and investigation of irregularities, the recovery of funds lost, wrongly paid or incorrectly used and, where appropriate, penaltiesadministrative and financial penalties in accordance with Regulation (EU) No XXXX/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the annual budget of the Union.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Budget allocated to communication actions to be carried out by the Commission under this Regulation shall also cover the corporate communication of the political priorities of the European Union within the context of the scope of the Programme.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall take appropriate measures ensuring that, when activitieons financed under this Regulation are implemented, the financial interests of the Union are protected throughby the application of preventive measures against fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities, throughby effective checks and, if irregularities are detected, throughby the recovery of the amounts wrongly paid and, where appropriate, by effective, proportionate and deterrentissuasive administrative and financial penalties.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
3. The European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) may carry out investigations, including on-the-spot checks and inspections on economic operators concerned directly or indirectly by such funding in accordance with the procedures laid down in Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96, in accordance with the provisions and procedures laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November 1996 concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities' financial interests against fraud and other irregularities with a view to establishing whether there has been fraud, corruption or any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the Union in connection with a grant agreement or grant decision or a contract concerning Union funding. funded under the Programme.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
4. Without prejudice to the first and second subparagraphsparagraphs 1, 2 and 3, cooperation agreements with third countries and with international organisations and, contracts, grant agreements and grant decisions and contracts, resulting from the implementation of this Regulation shall contain provisions expressly empowering the Commission, the Court of Auditors and OLAF to conduct such audits, on-the-spot checks and inspection and investigations, according to their respective competences.