Activities of Monica MACOVEI related to 2010/2247(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Protection of Communities' financial interests – fight against fraud (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the protection of the Communities’ financial interests – Fight against fraud – Annual Report 2009 PDF (177 KB) DOC (94 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- Having regard to its Written Declaration of 18 May 2010 on the Union's efforts in combating corruption (P7_DCL(2010)0002), with a view to ensure that EU funds are not subject to corruption;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to hold Member States more accountable for the amount of irregularities that have yet to be recovered;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Inquires as to what steps the Commission has taken to combat the increase of suspected fraud, in number of cases and amounts as compared to the total number of cases of irregularities in the Member States of Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is concerned about the level of outstanding irregularities not recovered or declared unrecoverable in Italy at the end of the fiscal year of 2009;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that Union legislation requires Member States to report all irregularities no later than two months after the end of the quarter in which an irregularity has been subject to a primary administrative or judicial finding and/or new information about a reported irregularity becomes known; calls on the Member States to make all the necessary efforts, including the streamlining of national administrative procedures, to meet the required deadlines and reduce the time gap between the moment a irregularity is identified and that when it is reported; calls on the Member States to act primarily as a protector of taxpayers’ money in their efforts to combat fraud;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the introduction in 2009 of the Irregularity Management System (IMS), an application developed and maintained by OLAF, and the positive developments it has brought about; is concerned that the Commission explains the increase in the number of cases reported and the financial impact by the use of new technological reporting; calls on the Commission to provide the Parliament with a detailed methodology of the newly implemented technological reporting and to include it in next years report; calls upon the Member States to fully implement the IMS and to further improve their reporting compliance;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Requests the Commission to include in its next year report the amount of irregularities reported using the new technological reporting against the traditional methods of reporting; calls on the Member States to improve the speed at which irregularities are reported;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -7 a (new)
Paragraph -7 a (new)
-7a. Is concerned about the amount of fraud compared to irregularities in the Own Resources sector for the member states of Austria, Estonia, Italy, Romania, and Slovakia as fraud constitutes more than half the total amount in each Member State; calls on the Member States to take all necessary measures, including close cooperation with European institutions, to address all causes leading to fraud relating to EU funds;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -7 b (new)
Paragraph -7 b (new)
-7b. Is concerned by the suspiciously low fraud rates in Spain and France, especially considering their size and financial support received, as described by the Commission in the PIF report 2009 and therefore calls on the Commission to include detailed information on the applied reported methodology and the fraud detection capability in these states;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
After paragraph 24 – heading 6 (new)
After paragraph 24 – heading 6 (new)
Public procurement, increased transparency and the fight against corruption
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission, the relevant Union agencies and the Member States to take measures and provide resources to ensure that EU funds are not subject to corruption, to adopt dissuasive sanctions where corruption and fraud are found, to step up the confiscation of criminal assets involved in fraud, tax evasion and money-laundering related crimes;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to design, implement and periodically evaluate uniform systems of procurement to prevent fraud and corruption, to define and implement clear conditions for participation in public procurement, and criteria on which public procurement decisions are made, and also to adopt and implement systems to review public procurement decisions at the national level, to ensure transparency and accountability in public finances, and to adopt and implement risk management and internal control systems;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Welcomes the Commission’s Green Paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy Towards a more efficient European Procurement Market; calls on Council and Commission to finalize the adoption of the reform of the basic EU public procurement rules (Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC) no later than by the end of 2012;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24d. Following its request in its last year’s report on the protection of the Communities’ financial interests, urges OLAF to present in its next annual report, a detailed analysis of the strategies and measures put in place by each Member State in the fight against fraud and for preventing and identifying irregularities in the expenditure of European funds, including where they are caused by corruption; considers that specific attention should be paid to the implementation of agricultural and structural funds; takes the view that the report, with 27 country profiles, should analyse the approach followed by national judicial and investigating bodies and the quantity and quality of controls performed, as well as statistics and reasons in the cases where national authorities did not file indictments following reports by OLAF;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 e (new)
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24e. Following its request in the last year’s report on the protection of the Communities’ financial interests, urges the Council to complete the conclusion of the Cooperation Agreements with Liechtenstein in the shortest possible time and urges the Council Presidency to give the Commission a mandate to negotiate antifraud agreements with Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Switzerland;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 f (new)
Paragraph 24 f (new)
24f. Urges the Commission to take action to ensure one-stop transparency of the beneficiaries of EU-funds; calls on the Commission to design measures to increase the transparency of legal arrangements and a system where all beneficiaries of EU funds are published on the same website, independently of the administrator of the funds and based on standard categories of information to be provided by all Member States in at least one working language of the Union; calls on the Member States to cooperate with and provide to the Commission full and reliable information regarding the beneficiaries of the EU funds managed by Member States; invites the Commission to evaluate the system of ‘shared management’ and provide Parliament with a report as a matter of priority;