2 Amendments of Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES related to 2012/2285(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Welcomes the report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – Fight against fraud – Annual Report 2011 (‘the Commission’s annual report’); regrets, however, that the report is limited to the data reported by the Member States in different ways and therefore does not indicate the actual scale of irregularities and fraud, and that consequently it is not possible to evaluate the overall scale of irregularities and fraud in individual Member States or to identify and discipline those Member States with the highest level of irregularities and fraud as has been repeatedly requested by Parliament; urges, therefore, that standard evaluation criteria for irregularities and fraud be laid down in all Member States and combined with appropriate penalties for those guilty of infringement;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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4. Emphasises that the low number of fraud cases reported in some Member States could be explained by the fact that cases recognised as fraud in one Member State are considered to be lawful in another, and therefore urges the Commission to standardise the criteria for defining fraud and to forward them to all the Member States;