Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-29-Speech-1-084"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fight against fraud and protection of the financial interests of the Communities (2002)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040329.8.1-084"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-29-Speech-1-0852
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-03-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, just as the rapporteur did, I should like to refer to the raid on a German journalist’s house, carried out just recently by the Belgian police on the instructions of OLAF. OLAF’s breaking into a journalist’s house and seizing computers, notes, address registers and mobile telephones constitutes a very serious encroachment upon the freedom of the press. Following the raid, the Belgian police did not actually bring any specific charges. I therefore sincerely hope that OLAF has a very good explanation of why this course of action was taken. An explanation really is needed. If OLAF cannot provide such an explanation, I do not believe that OLAF’s director can remain in place. I should also like to ask the European Commission whether it knew about this in advance and, if so, who in the Commission was aware of the matter. Please answer this question here and now. OLAF has faced a lot of criticism in the wake of the Eurostat scandal. I think that this has, in the main, been justified. OLAF’s director chose not to inform the Commission in time. Obviously, there need to be fundamental reforms to the way in which information is passed on, something that is now in part also being proposed. The rapporteur’s report is a very thorough piece of work, and makes for fairly gloomy reading. It is a kind of balancing of the books following five years’ work since the Santer Commission was forced to go. What is evident is that the problems involving fraud and irregularities have not disappeared. The problems have even increased in the last year. What is also evident is the fact that the promises previously made to demand political accountability have not been fulfilled, above all where the Eurostat scandal is concerned. The problem does not only relate to control systems. It is also about system errors. A matter such as export refunds for live animals is an invitation to fraud. It also involves systematically organised cruelty to animals, funded by the taxpayers. The existence of such systems is in fact an invitation to misuse tax revenue in the European Union. In this case, increased control is not what is in the first place required. What is required is for the system to be done away with as quickly as possible."@en1

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