Activities of Katalin CSEH related to 2023/2045(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2022
Amendments (13)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of 16 February 2022 in Cases C-156/21 and C-157/216 and the CJEU’s conclusions that the rule-of-law conditionality mechanism is in line with EU law,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission proposal of 18 September 2022 for a Council implementing decision on measures for the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary (COM(2022)0485),
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
– having regard to Commission communication of 14 December 2020 on the review of the European Union under the Implementation Review Mechanism of the United Nation Conventions against Corruption (UNCAC) (COM(2020)0793),
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)
Citation 17 b (new)
– having regard to its recommendation of 17 February 2022 to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning corruption and human rights,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas the ARACHNE is voluntary tool and, although already largely used in cohesion policy and being introduced for agricultural spending, making it mandatory - as repeatedly requested by the Parliament - would be a major step forward;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the diversity of legal and administrative systems in the Member States is a disadvantage and whereas it needs to be adequately addressed to be able to create more unified, interoperable and comparable administrative and reporting systems in the EU to effectively prevent and fight in order to overcome irregularities and combat fraud and corruption;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Reiterates its strong support for the obligatory use of the single integrated IT system for data-mining and risk-scoring called ARACHNE envisaged by the Financial Regulation recast, which should ensure better protection of the Union’s financial interests;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Emphasizes that the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES), as the EU’s blacklist, has a huge potential flagging people and companies that misuse EU funds; is strongly of the opinion that EDES should be operational not only in direct management but also in indirect and shared management as well;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Regrets the fact that the participation of Member States in the EPPO is not obligatory; Remarks that, in 2022, 22 Member States already participated in the EPPO, with the same five countries as in 2021 abstaining; insists that Member States which have not yet participated, must do so without delay; calls on the Commission to incentivise participation in the EPPO through positive measures;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Takes note of the Council decision of 16 December 2022 to suspend the disbursement of EUR 6.3 billion of EU funds to Hungary; expects the Commission and the Council to lift the adopted measures only where evidence is collected that the remedial measures adopted by the Hungarian Government have proven effective in practice and, in particular, that no regression has been detected on already adopted measures; regrets, that so far the Hungarian government showed little willingness to fulfil the requirements of the Conditionality mechanism; reiterates, however, its opinion that the 17 measures alone, as negotiated by the Commission and the Hungarian Government, are not sufficient to address the existing systemic risk to the EU’s financial interests and regrets that the Commission did not request sufficient substantial changes and safeguards to restore the independence of the judiciary and reduce the level of corruption;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. CRegrets that the Commission is not transparent enough about the relevant developments, therefore calls on the Commission to inform Parliament and the Council swiftly and regularly about any relevant developmentof the ongoing negotiations and reminds the Commission, in particular, of its legal obligations set out in Article 25(2) of the RRF Regulation and Article 8 of the Conditionality Regulation;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74 a (new)
Paragraph 74 a (new)
74a. Calls on the Commission to update the fraud report system for funds spent in non-EU countries; notes that the new system should take into account specific issues that the EU faces when spending money outside EU territory;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78 a (new)
Paragraph 78 a (new)
78a. Recommends the suspension of budgetary support in non-EU countries, including candidate countries, where authorities manifestly fail to take genuine action against widespread corruption, while ensuring that the assistance reaches the civil population through alternative channels; calls for greater priority to be given to the fight against corruption in pre-accession negotiations with a focus on capacity building, such as via specialised anti-corruption bodies; calls on the Commission to send clear signals to candidate countries that a backlash against rule-of-law standards is jeopardising or delaying the accession to the EU; regrets the fact that, according to ECA Special Report No 01/2022, EUR 700 million in financial support for the improvement of the rule of law in the Western Balkans provided by the EU between 2014 and 2020 had little impact on fundamental reforms;