Activites

• 1995/06/29 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 1995/1469
  • OJ L 145 29.06.1995, p. 0001
• #1858
• 1995/06/22 Council Meeting
• 1995/06/22 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1995/06/22 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1995/05/24 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1995)0194 summary

    The Commission's amended proposal took account of the amendments tabled by the European Parliament, insofar as the Commission supported the proposal together with the results of the discussions held within the Council. �

• 1995/02/17 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0067/1995 summary

    Parliament approved the Commission proposal subject to 13 amendments. These amendments were aimed at: - including the Commission among the bodies to receive information on the operators presenting a risk of non-reliability in connection with operations financed by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund; - clarifying the definition of an operator presenting a risk of non-reliability as those operators who, according to a final decision by an administrative or judicial authority, had committed an irregularity and those who had been the subject of primary administrative or judicial findings of fact and were therefore the subject of suspicions; - defining for the purposes of the regulation the concepts of "irregularity", fraud against the Community's financial interests and "abuse of Community law"; - specifying the information that the Member States should provide; - completing the additional measures provided for by the regulation; - expressly recognising the operator's right to be informed and to inspect the relevant file; - ensuring that the Commission presented a report to the European Parliament on the application of this regulation within two years of its entry into force. It should submit any proposals for amendment of the regulation under the terms of Article 189b of the EC Treaty; The Commission accepted all these amendments. - ensuring that if a Member State failed to fulfil its obligations the Commission would initiate the identification procedures and the rules relating to notification together with the procedures laid down in Article 169 of the EC Treaty; The Commission did not accept this amendment. �

• 1995/02/15 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament summary

    During the debate, the rapporteur, Mr Tomlinson, pointed out that all of the measures suggested by this proposal already existed in legislative texts that were in force and that such a proposal would not have been necessary if the Member States had applied the existing rules strictly and in full before now. The new Regulation on the ‘black list’ was necessary but it was too short and too vague; it therefore needed to be improved. The rapporteur called on the Council to adopt this proposal as soon as possible, taking account of all of Parliament’s amendments, without which it would not make any sense. He was supported by Mr Garriga Polledo (E) on behalf of the EPP Group and by the Belgian Socialist Mr Willockx, who considered that the fight against fraud should continue in the Committee on Budgetary Control rather than in special committees of inquiry. The Commissioner responsible for agriculture, Mr Franz Fischler, indicated that the Commission agreed with the rapporteur in general but felt that Article 43 was more appropriate than Article 189b as the legal basis of the Regulation. The Commissioner agreed to ensure that the Regulation was consistent with the provisions to be adopted on the protection of the Union’s financial interests and he stressed that it was important for the Member States to demonstrate a certain degree of flexibility.

• 1995/01/24 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0007/1995
• 1994/07/21 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1994/04/26 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0122 summary

    The purpose of this proposal is to introduce a Community system which allows the national authorities of all the Member States to identify operators guilty or against whom there are grounds for suspecting that they are guilty, deliberately or as the result of gross negligence, of defrauding the Community budget in connexion with tendering procedures, export refunds and sales at reduced prices of intervention products. According to the gravity of the charges and whether or not they are established or alleged, the national authorities must apply the appropriate sanctions from among a series of measures ranging from reinforced checking, suspension of payment of amounts relating to current operations and, where appropriate, release of the guarantee relating thereto, to the exclusion of the operators involved from the operations in question.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0122
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0007/1995
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0067/1995
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1995)0194
• : Regulation 1995/1469
• : OJ L 145 29.06.1995, p. 0001

History

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