Activities of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2010/2247(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Protection of Communities' financial interests – fight against fraud (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8
Citation 8
– having regard to Rule 48 and Rule 139 of its Rules of Procedure,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard therefore of a total of more than 700 pages
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets that, in general, the Commission's report on the Protection of the European Union's financial interests – Fight against fraud – Annual Report 2009 (COM(2010)0382) (the ‘PIF report 2009’), presented in accordance with Article 325(5) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), does not provide information on the estimated level of irregularities and fraud in individual Member States, as it concentrates on the level of reporting, and it is therefore even after sixteen years of negative declaration of assurance by the Court of Auditors still not possible to have an overview of the actual level of irregularities and fraud in the Member States and to identify and discipline those with the highest level of irregularities and fraud;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to take all necessary steps, including the use of its right of legislative initiative, in order toexercise its responsibility in ensureing compliance by Member States in their reporting obligations with a view to providing reliable and comparable data on the level of irregularities and fraud even if this requires the Commission to establish a penalty system for non-compliance with these reporting obligations;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its regret – given the serious doubts about the quality of the information provided by the Member States – that the Commission puts more effort into convincing the European Parliament about the need to introduce a ‘tolerable risk of error’ than into persuading Member States of the need for mandatory national management declarations duly audited by the national audit office and consolidated by the Court of Auditors;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the successful outcome of a few investigations carried out by OLAF in the area of own resources; is deeply concerned at the scale of fraud involving merchandise imported from China and urges the Member States to recover the sums in question without delay;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the agreements the European Union and its Member States have concluded with tobacco manufacturers to combat the illicit tobacco trade; expects a report about how these agreements really combat this illicit trade, e.g. how many container scanners were bought by port authorities since these agreements were reached;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Commission's conclusion that the overall reporting discipline in this policy group has improved and that compliance now stands at 95 %; calls on those Member States which still do not report in good time (Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the United Kingdom) to remedy the situation promptly; expects an explanation why the time-wasting panoply of current EU-27 committees, commissions, and conferences has not led to 100 % compliance but only to 81 % ;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the catastrophic situation regarding the overall recovery rate in this policy group, which in 2009 was a mere 42 % of the EUR 1 266 million outstanding at the end of the 2006 financial year; is particularly concerned at the Court of Auditors‘ observation that the EUR 121 million recovered in the years 2007-2009 from the beneficiaries represents less than 10 % of total recoveries; finds that situation unacceptable and calls oneven justifying postponing discharge to the Commission and the Council later this year and calls on the European Commission and the Member States to urgently address it; urgeexpects the Commission to take all necessary steps in order to put in place an effective system of recovery before the end of 2011 and to inform the European Parliament, in its next year's report on the protection of EU's financial interests, of the progress made;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that one important source of error in cohesion spending is a serious failure in applying public procurement rules; asks, therefore,expects the Commission to propose, without delay, new legislation to simplify and modernise thesetake the necessary action to ensure compliance with such rules;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to provide the European Parliament with timely information on the measures that have been taken with regard to the irregularities reported by the Member States and detected by the Commission in this policy group so that this information can lead to changes the Commission itself cannot bring about;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is not satisfied by a recovery rate exceeding 50 % for the programming period 2000-2006; urges the Member States to deploy further efforts for the recovery of irregular amounts and calls on the Commission to take action in order to ensure a higher recovery rate – considering that the Commission implements the budget on its own responsibility, as stated in Article 317 TFEU;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Slovenia reported a zero fraud rate for SAPARD and questions the reliability of the reported information or the fraud detection capability of those States; wonders why the Commission has accepted these statements without questioning them;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Finds unacceptable the very low recovery rate for suspected fraud in the pre-accession funds, which is only 4.6 % for the whole programming period, and rather than callsing on the Commission to take action, points out that after all these years of negative DAS it still has not put in place an efficient system in order to address this situation;