Activities of Tineke STRIK related to 2020/2221(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the impact of organised crime on EU own resources and on the misuse of EU funds, with a particular focus on shared management from an auditing and control perspective
Amendments (3)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the start of operations of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) on 1 June 2021; reiterates the need to ensure that the EPPO has all the necessary resources to carry out its functions, in order to protect the EU’s financial interests; notes that only six weeks after its establishment, the EPPO already processed 1000 reports of fraud affecting the financial interests of the European Union; stresses that with the establishment of the The Next Generation EU fund, the workload of EPPO is likely to increase even further; recalls the European Chief Prosecutor statements in the LIBE committee on the need for more resources in order to hire enough financial investigators and case analysts in order for the Office to sufficiently perform its tasks; calls on the European Commission and Member States to ensure sufficient funding for the EPPO to fulfill its duties;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that exchanges of information on irregularities in the use of funds should take place between the competent national and EU administrations as well as between the relevant law enforcement and judicial authorities. ; regrets that five Member States currently do not participate in the EPPO; welcomes the working arrangements between EPPO and Hungary; calls on the other non- participating Member States to urgently establish working arrangements with the EPPO as well in order to avoid gaps in the detection of organized crime and fraud; regrets that although Slovenia is a participating Member State in the EPPO, it currently does not fulfill its obligations by not appointing its European Delegated Prosecutors; stresses that the Slovenian government hereby undermines the effective work of the EPPO and seriously and in a direct way affects the sound financial management of the EU budget and the protection of the financial interests of the European Union; calls on the Slovenian authorities to immediately propose its European Delegated Prosecutors; calls on the Commission to use the tools at its disposal to ensure that Member States comply with the obligations of the EPPO regulation;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that Europol's regular "Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment" (SOCTA) reports do not cover organised crime with EU funds; encourages Europol to include this issue in future SOCTA reports.