6 Amendments of Eleonora FORENZA related to 2015/2128(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes firmly that, at a time of ongoing fiscal consolidation and restraint in the Member States with the objective of bringing finances onto a more sustainable footing, all necessary steps must be taken to prevent and stop any fraudulent activities in the field of trade policy and its associated appropriations;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the ongoing deregulation of the financial markets and the diminishment of the existing regulatory frameworks in international trade risks to facilitate phenomena such as corruption, smuggling, trafficking and other forms of illegal and illicit trade, especially at profit of transnational organized crimes; therefore calls to keep this aspect carefully in consideration while negotiating FTAs and trade facilitation agreement;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Supports the attempt to include a strong and binding anti-fraud and corruption clause that can pave the ground for enhanced cooperation against organized crime, trafficking and other illegal or illicit trade, as structural element in all the Free Trade Agreements involving the EU; considers therefore extremely important the inclusion also in the ongoing TTIP and TISA negotiations;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Draws attention to the illicit financial outflows put in place by extra-EU transnational multinational companies engage in fraudulent schemes aimed at avoiding tax payments in the EU;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomNotes the key role played by the EU’s macro-financial assistance (MFA) programme in encouraging reform inimposing cuts in public spending in some of the EU’s closest trading countriepartners; requests that the Commission continue to report to Parliament and the Member States with a view to ensuring that all funds are spent in full compliance with the basic regulation.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on OLAF to investigate whether EU macro-financial assistance paid to third countries, and in particular the high amounts paid to the Ukraine, are spent in full compliance with the respective regulations, and to report to the European Parliament and to the Council on an annual basis whether fraud or corruption can be linked with the spending of EU MFA.