Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-16-Speech-2-049"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-05-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protecting the Communities’ financial interests and the fight against fraud2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000516.4.2-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-16-Speech-2-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volksunie (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I too would first of all like to congratulate Mr Bösch on his sound report and, unlike Mr Dell'Alba, I think that Mr Bösch has indeed drawn the right lessons from OLAF’s annual report which was published late last year. We might as well admit it, there are a great many money-grubbers active within the European Union, and organised crime no longer concentrates solely on drug smuggling, the arms trade, trafficking in humans, meat fraud, alcohol and cigarette smuggling, VAT merry-go-round fraud and oil fraud, and has not done so for a long time. They are all forms of crime which cause serious harm to the EU’s budget, both on the revenue side and the expenditure side. We may have had a single market since 1993 which accommodates the free movement of goods, services, people, capital, as well as organised criminals, but this single market does not exist – and this is so unfortunate – for police services and magistrates alike. On my own behalf, I will therefore stick my neck out and endorse all paragraphs of the Bösch report which call for the setting up of a European Public Prosecutor’s office. I know it is a controversial issue, even within my own group. Despite this, I believe that such a European Public Prosecutor’s office should be set up. I would therefore ask the European Commission, as a matter of extreme urgency, to meet the request of the Bösch report to add an extra clause to the present OLAF regulation before 30 June, providing for a kind of trial project in which a European Public Prosecutor is appointed from within OLAF who can only act on behalf of members and staff of the European institutions. I entreat Commissioner Schreyer to give very specific answers to this request and would ask her whether she would be prepared to take any initiative in this matter before 30 June."@en1

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