7 Amendments of Ska KELLER related to 2015/2128(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is convinced that both police and policy issues are at stake, and that, while criminal investigation into illegal trade practices by importers into the EU is necessary, shortcomings and failures related to deficient Commission policy have to be fully revealed and need to be tackled, from missing ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of the effect of trade agreements on the EU budget, to weaknesses in control strategies and risk management of customs duties collection and customs clearance;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges that the Commission come up with proposals on how it will improve ex- ante assessments of trade agreements in order to estimate in advance revenue foregone following the granting of trade preferences, and believes that reliable analysis models have to be developed as an urgent matter, as the European Union sis concluding an ever increasing number of preferential trade agreements, with effects on its own budget;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Is concerned about reported deficient or in-total non-executed recovery of customs debt after discovery of fraud in some member states; is of the opinion that non-recovery is a form of impunity and complicity with those who committed the fraud and paves the way to repetition of customs fraud;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the problems of smuggling, trafficking and other forms of illegal and illicit tradetrading practices and illicit financial flows linked to the latter, which not only have an impact on Member States’ collection of customs duties and consequently on the EU budget, but are also strongly associated with organised international crime, threats to consumers and negative effects on the functioning of the single market, and which undermine a level playing field for all competing companies; requests, therefore, better coordination between the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), customs authorities and market surveillance authorities in order not only to combat these problems but also to curb the trade in products that infringe intellectual property laws in the EU, while carefully preserving and protecting he production and trade of generic medicines;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks the Commission to publish a list of European companies and their subsidiaries abroad who have fraudulently or unduly used preferential customs regimes when importing into European Union countries and produce data on the amount of duties not collected for the EU budget because of that fraud;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls the internal EU standards on the fight against corruption and the protection of whistleblowers, and believes that these should be explicitly extended to whistleblowers revealing fraud in relation to international agreements, including trade agreements;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the key role played by the EU’s macro-financial assistance (MFA) programme in encouraging reform in the EU’s closest trading countries; requests that the Commission continue to report to Parliament and the Member States with a view to ensuring that all funds are spent in full compliance wSuggests that a genuine MFA regulation, with proper EU conditionalities, will substantially improve the possibility to carry out and compare ex-post assessments of the added value of MFA interventions, which so far serve as flanking measures of IMF austerity programs, as these assessments could deliver information with regard to regional cohesion and promotion of regional stability, and hence limith the basic regulationrisk of misuse of repayable loans.