Activites

• 1996/10/28 Final act published in Official Journal
• 1996/09/19 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T4-0487/1996 summary

    Parliament adopted the report by Mrs Rosemarie WEMHEUER (PSE, D) containing a series of proposals aimed at giving greater transparency to the Commission's successes and failures in its measures to combat fraud detrimental to the Community budget. By making the Annual Report more readable, clearly structured and comprehensible, a better evaluation of the results obtained should be possible. The proposed changes include: - the establishment of a chronological link between the Work Programme and the Annual Report; - the publication, in an annex to the Report, of important Council decisions and basic Commission documents with instructions on how to combat fraud; - a systematic analysis of the causes of fraud: it is important to determine whether, in the high-risk areas, the instruments used (subsidies, refunds, etc.) fulfil their real purpose or whether they should be replaced by other instruments which are more efficient and less open to fraud. �

• 1996/07/24 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0257/1996
• #1942
• 1996/07/08 Council Meeting
• #1906
• 1996/03/11 Council Meeting
• 1996/02/28 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1996/01/31 Non-legislative basic document published
  • COM(1996)0017 summary

    OBJECTIVE: submission by the Commission of a detailed programme of specific anti-fraud activities for 1996, the purpose of which is to clarify further the guidelines contained in the general programme by means of a series of selected activities. SUBSTANCE: the activities are grouped around four main headings which the Commission developed in presenting its anti-fraud strategy in 1994, namely: - stronger presence on the ground and further support for operational activities, concentrating on risk sectors; - stronger partnership between the Commission and the Member States, development of information networks and better use of intelligence; - improvement of Community legislation in the various areas of activity; - securing greater compatibility between the legislations of the Member States. A number of guidelines require further information to be obtained so as to enable the Commission to carry out a more detailed study (for example, prevention, the question of out-of-court settlements, results following inspections and follow-up action in fraud cases, etc.). In this context the Commission is directing its work towards clarifying further the mechanisms likely to ensure an equivalent level of protection of financial interest throughout the Community. The impact of this work on anti-fraud policy will be measurable after 1996. �

• #1887
• 1995/11/27 Council Meeting
  • 1887

Documents

• Debate in Council: 1887
• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(1996)0017
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0257/1996
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0487/1996

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)