4 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2015/2110(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is concerned about the increasing professionalisation of people smuggling and the related increase in profits for smuggling and trafficking networks as a result of the continuing flows of refugees to Europe; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that progress is made on international cooperation to combat trafficking in order to eradicate people smuggling and minimise the influence of trafficking networks;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that Greece received around EUR 655 million in 2015 from national programmes and the emergency support system for the refugee crisis; calls on the Commission to ensure that proper use was made of these funds and to inform Parliament of its findings;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights in this regard that it is urgent thate urgent need for an agreement between the Parliament and the Council find an agreement on the Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (PIF Directive) with VAT included ; notes that the only thing standing in the way of such an agreement is the Council’s blocking of any progress on including VAT in the scope of the directive; calls on the Council to rethink its scopetance in the light of the ECJ ruling in the Taricco case (C-105/14), which clearly endorses Parliament’s legal position;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Is concerned that 71.15 % of the expenditure for visitors’ groups in 2014 was paid in cash; notes the study produced by the Court of Auditors, in which it drew attention to the ‘high risk’ practice of making cash payments for the reimbursement of costs for visitors’ groups; demands that all cash payments for visitors’ groups be abolished;