2 Amendments of Bart STAES related to 2008/2242(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Regrets that the Commission was unable to provide a comprehensive report on the follow-up to Parliament's resolution of 11 October 2007 on the implications of the agreement between the Community, Member States and Philip Morris on intensifying the fight against fraud and cigarette smuggling and progress made in implementing the recommendations of Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into the Community Transit System2, and in particular paragraph 49 thereof, which explicitly asked the Commission to publish such a report by the end of 2008; expects that the Commission will come forward with this report before the parliamentary elections inend of the discharge procedure for the financial year 20097;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Cannot accept that, whereas under the Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco agreements the Community received EURUSD 1,265 billion for the fight against fraud, instead of setting up a common approach, the Commission sent some 90% of this money un-earmarked straight to the Ministers of Finance of the Member States; Calls on the Council and the Commission to set up a tripartite working group with Parliament to find adequate solutions to make wise and better use of this and similar income of the Union. Finds it unacceptable that in times of economic downturn billions of Euro of fines, paid by major companies who violated European competition rules to the detriment of European consumers, are not used by the Union to stimulate the economy to the benefit of the unemployed and /or to help developing countries who will suffer most under the crisis, but instead are simply sent to the national treasuries;