Activities of Marc JOULAUD related to 2015/2128(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual report 2014 on the Protection of the EU's financial interests - Fight against fraud (A8-0026/2016 - Benedek Jávor) FR
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Annual Report 2014 on the Protection of the EU’s Financial Interests – Fight against fraud
Amendments (5)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes, on the one hand, that once again cohesion policy is not the area with the highest number of irregularities reported as fraudulent, and, on the other hand, that the largest proportion of such irregularities in this policy area concern the European Regional Development Fund; recalls that all irregularities are not fraud and that non-fraudulent and fraudulent irregularities must be differentiated;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that measures to detect irregularities continue to vary between Member States, mainly on account of differing definitions of irregularities; welcomes the preventive and corrective measures taken by the Commission to avoid fraudulent irregularities, including by interrupting 193 payments under the cohesion policy; underlines that non- fraudulent irregularities are often linked to complex rules and requirements for the recipients; believes that simplification of the rules and procedures by the Member States and the Commission will decrease the number of non-fraudulent irregularities; calls on the Member States to encourage exchanges of good practices in order to prevent, detect, transmit and evaluate frauds and irregularities;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the Common Provisions Regulation requires managing authorities to put in place effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures; points out that cohesion policy reform has led to decentralized EU fund management and that the new local management authorities need to be empowered to effectively combat fraud and irregularities; calls on the Commission to reinforce preventive action, in particular by strengthening the technical and administrative capacities of managing authorities to ensure more robust control systems able to reduce the risks of fraud and increase detection capacity; calls on the Member States to set up coherent national strategies encompassing prevention, detection and law enforcement to efficiently fight against fraud;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that a significant part of the money spent in the area of regional policy is spent through public procurement; calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully analyse the frequency, seriousness and causes of public procurement errors in the area of cohesion policy; calls on the Member States to improve the transposition of all directives relative to public procurement;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Underlines that fraud and corruption are more and more transnational; calls on the Council to support the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) provided that the relationship between the EPPO and other existing EU bodies is further defined and clearly demarcated in order to avoid the inefficient overlapping of competences;