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2005/2163(INI) Recovery of Community funds

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead CONT CASACA Paulo (icon: PSE PSE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54

Events

2007/02/05
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
SP(2006)5914
2006/11/23
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
SP(2006)5316-2
2006/10/24
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
Documents
Results of vote in Parliament
2006/10/24
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Paulo CASACA (PES, PT) on the recovery of Community funds. (Please see the summary of 13/09/2006.)

Documents
T6-0438/2006
2006/10/24
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2006/10/23
   EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
Debate in Parliament
2006/09/22
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
A6-0303/2006
2006/09/22
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
A6-0303/2006
2006/09/13
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The committee adopted the own-initiative report by Paulo CASACA (PES, PT) on the recovery of Community funds. The report welcomed the three proposals submitted by the Commission as part of the 2002 reform of the Financial Regulation, including a five-year deadline for recovery of sums owed to the Community. It also called on the Member States to prove their compliance with international accounting standards and raised the possibility of the EU developing a common approach in this matter.

The committee referred to some well-known cases of wrongdoing (notably the 'Italburro' scandal over adulterated butter and the 'Blue Dragon' affair involving Spain and France), and stressed that "the Commission should not only seek to recover European funds from a Member State where they have been misused, but should also use its best endeavours to see that wrongdoers are prosecuted and their victims compensated". The possibility of closer cooperation with Eurojust and Europol needed to be explored in order to strengthen the real protection of the Union’s financial interests, and an evaluation should be carried out into the possibility of OLAF’s full administrative independence from the Commission and the other institutions.

The committee noted that OLAF did not possess suitable information on the quantities of incriminated products, while undertaking the inquiries in a criminal law context had proved "disastrous from the viewpoint of recovery, even if it is true that in strictly legal terms OLAF is entitled, on behalf of the Commission, to contest a national decision". MEPs also recalled that, while in some countries recovery proceedings may be initiated even if a criminal action is under way, in others criminal law has precedence over civil law, so that the existence of an action on the part of a judicial authority makes it impossible to recover the disputed sums. The committee deplored the fact that "in some Member States irregularities and frauds are admitted only in respect of individually proven sums, that is, lot by lot, and that where no lot is present the operator is automatically deemed innocent".

The report said that the creation of the office of European Public Prosecutor would be a decision of major importance, since it would facilitate direct access to the national public prosecutor’s offices, thus working in the interests of a more ‘joined-up’ procedure. This should help reduce complexity, since the result should be a converged use of the European Prosecutor’s services. The committee pointed out that, while OLAF enjoys powers of intervention in the context of its inquiries, it does not enjoy judicial powers. The report also noted that the project to establish a European Public Prosecutor must be regarded more as a long-term undertaking, and that, in order to achieve an improvement in the short term, "coordination between Member States' public prosecutors must be central to plans to create added value", in terms of reducing OLAF's workload and protecting the financial interests of the Community.

2006/07/25
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
PE376.678
2006/06/30
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
PE374.061
2005/09/29
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2005/07/12
   EP - CASACA Paulo (PSE) appointed as rapporteur in CONT

Documents

Activities

Votes

Rapport Casaca A6-0303/2006 - par. 43 #

2006/10/24 Outcome: +: 546, -: 75, 0: 13
DE FR IT ES PL NL EL HU PT AT BE FI SE SK DK LT CY EE LU SI MT GB IE CZ LV
Total
88
69
60
42
51
24
22
20
18
18
19
13
16
13
13
12
6
6
6
5
5
67
12
20
9
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22

France PSE

29

Italy PSE

12

Spain PSE

19

Poland PSE

9

Netherlands PSE

7

Greece PSE

7

Hungary PSE

7

Portugal PSE

10

Austria PSE

7

Belgium PSE

7

Finland PSE

2

Sweden PSE

5

Slovakia PSE

3

Denmark PSE

4

Lithuania PSE

2

Estonia PSE

3

Luxembourg PSE

For (1)

Robert GOEBBELS
1

Malta PSE

3

United Kingdom PSE

16

Ireland PSE

1

Czechia PSE

2
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Rolf BEREND
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14

Italy PPE-DE

17

Spain PPE-DE

18

Poland PPE-DE

14

Netherlands PPE-DE

6

Greece PPE-DE

11

Hungary PPE-DE

12

Portugal PPE-DE

7

Austria PPE-DE

6

Belgium PPE-DE

4

Finland PPE-DE

4

Sweden PPE-DE

Against (1)

Gunnar HÖKMARK
6

Slovakia PPE-DE

8

Denmark PPE-DE

For (1)

Gitte SEEBERG
1

Lithuania PPE-DE

2

Cyprus PPE-DE

3

Estonia PPE-DE

For (1)

Tunne KELAM
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2

United Kingdom PPE-DE

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John BOWIS
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6

France ALDE

9

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Netherlands ALDE

4

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1

Austria ALDE

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Lena EK
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Lithuania ALDE

6

Cyprus ALDE

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Marios MATSAKIS
1

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Lydie POLFER
1

Slovenia ALDE

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United Kingdom ALDE

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Ireland ALDE

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Marian HARKIN
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Paul van BUITENEN
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Willy MEYER
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Miguel PORTAS
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Esko SEPPÄNEN
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Ole KRARUP
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Czechia GUE/NGL

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Greece IND/DEM

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Hélène GOUDIN
1

Denmark IND/DEM

Against (1)

Jens-Peter BONDE
1

United Kingdom IND/DEM

10

Ireland IND/DEM

For (1)

Kathy SINNOTT
1

Czechia IND/DEM

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Vladimír ŽELEZNÝ
1
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France NI

7

Italy NI

6

Poland NI

6

Austria NI

Against (1)

Andreas MÖLZER
2

Belgium NI

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Abstain (1)

Sergej KOZLÍK
2

United Kingdom NI

Abstain (1)

Ashley MOTE
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Czechia NI

1
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Mogens CAMRE
1

Lithuania UEN

2

Ireland UEN

4

Latvia UEN

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Guntars KRASTS
4

Rapport Casaca A6-0303/2006 - par. 44 #

2006/10/24 Outcome: +: 512, -: 109, 0: 15
DE FR IT ES HU EL PL NL AT BE PT FI SK LT DK CY EE LU SI MT LV IE CZ SE GB
Total
88
69
60
45
20
22
51
24
18
19
19
12
14
12
12
6
6
6
5
5
9
12
21
15
66
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177

Germany PSE

22

France PSE

29

Italy PSE

12

Spain PSE

19

Hungary PSE

7

Greece PSE

7

Poland PSE

9

Netherlands PSE

7

Austria PSE

7

Belgium PSE

7

Portugal PSE

9

Finland PSE

2

Slovakia PSE

3

Lithuania PSE

2

Denmark PSE

4

Estonia PSE

3

Luxembourg PSE

For (1)

Robert GOEBBELS
1

Malta PSE

3

Ireland PSE

1

Czechia PSE

2

Sweden PSE

5

United Kingdom PSE

16
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44

France PPE-DE

14

Italy PPE-DE

17

Spain PPE-DE

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Hungary PPE-DE

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Greece PPE-DE

11

Poland PPE-DE

14

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6

Austria PPE-DE

6

Belgium PPE-DE

4

Portugal PPE-DE

7

Finland PPE-DE

4

Slovakia PPE-DE

8

Lithuania PPE-DE

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Gitte SEEBERG
1

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Tunne KELAM
1

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3

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2

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3

Ireland PPE-DE

5

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12

Sweden PPE-DE

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Anders WIJKMAN
6

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For (1)

John BOWIS
24
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5

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9

Italy ALDE

10

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2

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1

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5

Netherlands ALDE

4

Austria ALDE

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Belgium ALDE

4

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Denmark ALDE

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Marios MATSAKIS
1

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Lydie POLFER
1

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1

Latvia ALDE

1

Ireland ALDE

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Marian HARKIN
1

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Lena EK
1

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10
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Paul van BUITENEN
3

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Satu HASSI
1

Denmark Verts/ALE

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Margrete AUKEN
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Claude TURMES
1

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Carl SCHLYTER
1

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Caroline LUCAS
3
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Abstain (1)

Sahra WAGENKNECHT
5

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7

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Willy MEYER
1

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3

Netherlands GUE/NGL

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Erik MEIJER
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For (1)

Miguel PORTAS
3

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2

Czechia GUE/NGL

6

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Eva-Britt SVENSSON
1
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28

France NI

6

Italy NI

Against (1)

Luca ROMAGNOLI
6

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6

Austria NI

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Andreas MÖLZER
2

Belgium NI

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Slovakia NI

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Peter BACO, Sergej KOZLÍK
3

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Kathy SINNOTT
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1

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Guntars KRASTS
4

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Rapport Casaca A6-0303/2006 - par. 45 #

2006/10/24 Outcome: +: 516, -: 96, 0: 19
DE FR IT ES PL NL HU EL AT BE PT FI DK SK LT CY EE LU SI MT SE LV IE CZ GB
Total
85
68
59
44
49
24
19
22
18
19
19
13
13
14
12
6
6
6
5
5
15
9
12
22
67
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27

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19

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Netherlands PSE

7

Hungary PSE

6

Greece PSE

7

Austria PSE

7

Belgium PSE

7

Portugal PSE

10

Finland PSE

2

Denmark PSE

4

Slovakia PSE

3

Lithuania PSE

2

Estonia PSE

3

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Robert GOEBBELS
1

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3

Sweden PSE

5

Ireland PSE

1

Czechia PSE

2

United Kingdom PSE

16
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Germany PPE-DE

43

France PPE-DE

15

Italy PPE-DE

17

Spain PPE-DE

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Poland PPE-DE

13

Netherlands PPE-DE

6

Hungary PPE-DE

12

Greece PPE-DE

11

Austria PPE-DE

6

Belgium PPE-DE

4

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7

Finland PPE-DE

4

Denmark PPE-DE

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Gitte SEEBERG
1

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8

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2

Cyprus PPE-DE

3

Estonia PPE-DE

For (1)

Tunne KELAM
1

Luxembourg PPE-DE

3

Slovenia PPE-DE

4

Malta PPE-DE

2

Sweden PPE-DE

For (1)

Anders WIJKMAN
5

Latvia PPE-DE

3

Ireland PPE-DE

5

Czechia PPE-DE

12

United Kingdom PPE-DE

For (1)

John BOWIS
25
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Germany ALDE

5

France ALDE

9

Italy ALDE

10

Spain ALDE

2

Poland ALDE

4

Netherlands ALDE

4

Hungary ALDE

1

Austria ALDE

1

Belgium ALDE

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4

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Marios MATSAKIS
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Lena EK
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10
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Netherlands Verts/ALE

Abstain (1)

Paul van BUITENEN
3

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Satu HASSI
1

Denmark Verts/ALE

For (1)

Margrete AUKEN
1

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

Claude TURMES
1

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Carl SCHLYTER
1

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United Kingdom Verts/ALE

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Caroline LUCAS
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Abstain (1)

Sahra WAGENKNECHT
4

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2

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6

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For (1)

Willy MEYER
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2

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3

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For (1)

Esko SEPPÄNEN
1

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Ole KRARUP
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Czechia GUE/NGL

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Hélène GOUDIN
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Kathy SINNOTT
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  • date: 2005-09-29T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: CONT date: 2005-07-12T00:00:00 committee_full: Budgetary Control rapporteur: group: PSE name: CASACA Paulo
  • date: 2006-09-13T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: CONT date: 2005-07-12T00:00:00 committee_full: Budgetary Control rapporteur: group: PSE name: CASACA Paulo type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2006-09-22T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-303&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0303/2006 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • date: 2006-10-23T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20061023&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament body: EP type: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2006-10-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=12650&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2006-438 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0438/2006 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
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  • date: 2006-06-30T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE374.061 title: PE374.061 type: Committee draft report body: EP
  • date: 2006-07-25T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE376.678 title: PE376.678 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
  • date: 2006-09-22T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-303&language=EN title: A6-0303/2006 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP
  • date: 2006-11-23T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=12650&j=1&l=en title: SP(2006)5316-2 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
  • date: 2007-02-05T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=12650&j=0&l=en title: SP(2006)5914 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
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  • date: 2005-09-29T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2006-09-13T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The committee adopted the own-initiative report by Paulo CASACA (PES, PT) on the recovery of Community funds. The report welcomed the three proposals submitted by the Commission as part of the 2002 reform of the Financial Regulation, including a five-year deadline for recovery of sums owed to the Community. It also called on the Member States to prove their compliance with international accounting standards and raised the possibility of the EU developing a common approach in this matter. The committee referred to some well-known cases of wrongdoing (notably the 'Italburro' scandal over adulterated butter and the 'Blue Dragon' affair involving Spain and France), and stressed that "the Commission should not only seek to recover European funds from a Member State where they have been misused, but should also use its best endeavours to see that wrongdoers are prosecuted and their victims compensated". The possibility of closer cooperation with Eurojust and Europol needed to be explored in order to strengthen the real protection of the Union’s financial interests, and an evaluation should be carried out into the possibility of OLAF’s full administrative independence from the Commission and the other institutions. The committee noted that OLAF did not possess suitable information on the quantities of incriminated products, while undertaking the inquiries in a criminal law context had proved "disastrous from the viewpoint of recovery, even if it is true that in strictly legal terms OLAF is entitled, on behalf of the Commission, to contest a national decision". MEPs also recalled that, while in some countries recovery proceedings may be initiated even if a criminal action is under way, in others criminal law has precedence over civil law, so that the existence of an action on the part of a judicial authority makes it impossible to recover the disputed sums. The committee deplored the fact that "in some Member States irregularities and frauds are admitted only in respect of individually proven sums, that is, lot by lot, and that where no lot is present the operator is automatically deemed innocent". The report said that the creation of the office of European Public Prosecutor would be a decision of major importance, since it would facilitate direct access to the national public prosecutor’s offices, thus working in the interests of a more ‘joined-up’ procedure. This should help reduce complexity, since the result should be a converged use of the European Prosecutor’s services. The committee pointed out that, while OLAF enjoys powers of intervention in the context of its inquiries, it does not enjoy judicial powers. The report also noted that the project to establish a European Public Prosecutor must be regarded more as a long-term undertaking, and that, in order to achieve an improvement in the short term, "coordination between Member States' public prosecutors must be central to plans to create added value", in terms of reducing OLAF's workload and protecting the financial interests of the Community.
  • date: 2006-09-22T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-303&language=EN title: A6-0303/2006
  • date: 2006-10-23T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20061023&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2006-10-24T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=12650&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2006-10-24T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2006-438 title: T6-0438/2006 summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Paulo CASACA (PES, PT) on the recovery of Community funds. (Please see the summary of 13/09/2006.)
  • date: 2006-10-24T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
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  • date: 2005-09-29T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: CONT date: 2005-07-12T00:00:00 committee_full: Budgetary Control rapporteur: group: PSE name: CASACA Paulo
  • date: 2006-09-13T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: CONT date: 2005-07-12T00:00:00 committee_full: Budgetary Control rapporteur: group: PSE name: CASACA Paulo type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2006-09-22T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-303&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0303/2006 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • date: 2006-10-23T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20061023&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament body: EP type: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2006-10-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=12650&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2006-438 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0438/2006 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
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