6 Amendments of José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA related to 2016/2224(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas whistle-blowers play an important and sometimes even crucial role in preportventing, detecting and disclosing irregularities, illegalities, fraud, corruption and other breaches of the rule of law at European and national level;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Parliament has recently adopted two documents:1 a rResolution1 on the role of whistle- blowers in the protection of EU’s financial interests; _________________ 1 and a Report on the protection of the EU’s financial interests – Fight against fraud;1 _________________ 1 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0022. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0022.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas since 1 July 2014 almost all European institutions and agencies have incorporated, as is mandatory, measures to protect whistleblowers into their internal rules of procedure, in accordance with Articles 22(b) and (c) of the Staff Regulations;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take all necessary steps to implement the resolution on the role of whistle-blowers in the protection of EU’s financial interests and, in particular, to submit legislative proposals aimed at establishing a minimumnd ensuring an adequate level of protection for European whistle-blowers andwhistleblowers, as set out in Article 33 of the UN Convention against Corruption, which clearly lays down the rights and responsibilities of people reporting wrongdoing, and to establish an effective and comprehensive European whistle- blower protection programme;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has recently introduced a channel for whistle-blowers to report or disclose information on competition and cartel agreements, but stresses the need for simplifying procedures and insists that there should not be an excessive number of channels;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls, therefore, on the Commission to build on the resolution recommendation to establish an independent information- gathering, advisory and referral EU body, with offices in all Member States which are in a position to receive reports and complaints of irregularities, with sufficient budgetary resources, adequate competences and appropriate specialists, in order to help internal and external whistle- blowers use the right channels to disclose their information, while protecting their confidentiality at all times as per the definition of the concept of whistleblowing and with sufficient verification capabilities to carry out an initial sorting and filtering the notifications and information received; urges the Commission to look into the feasibility of entrusting the European Ombudsman with these tasks;