7 Amendments of Marco VALLI related to 2016/2075(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas counterfeiting, the illegal arms trade and drug trafficking generates large sums for transnational organised crime by means of illicit economic and business channels;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that trade facilitation should include common and standardised rules on the methods, transparency, integrity and accountability of customs procedures;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is of the opinion that the quality and performance of customs controls on the transit of goods, particularly for shipment and transport operations at ports and borders, is of the first importance; regrets that there is currently a factual gap in the type of controls within the Union that favours some access routes, in particular ports, to the detriment of others, where the checks carried out are more stringent; considers it necessary to ensure that there are homogeneous and standardised control techniques among Member States for filtering at ports and borders by promoting modern, risk management-based control strategies;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that the fight against the smuggling of counterfeit goods requires special measures and calls on Member States to provide for a common protocol for controls to combat such abuses;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that the Commission should better monitor on a standardised risk basis countries benefiting from preferential treatment, notably in order to verify the implementation of rules of origin and cumulation; considers, in this context, checking of the originating status of imported products and the adequacy of the documents granting preferential treatment to be a key component of control strategies and traceability;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Supports the inclusion of anti-fraud clauses in trade and investment agreements so as to protect the financial interests of the Union, encompassing tax fraud and tax avoidance and tax evasion, trade-based corruption and money laundering; invites the Union, in addition, to make more use in all future trade agreements of precautionary and safeguard measures, such as the suspension of preferences under an anti-fraud clause or the management of administrative error clauses introduced into FTAs;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the need to present a proposal containing harmonised rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in cases of organized and transnational crime in order to prevent and combat illegal activities effectively;