Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-26-Speech-2-349"
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"I am grateful to Members for their comments and their support for the Pericles programme, which tries to fight counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is politically a very serious crime, which somehow humiliates the authorities, but the fight against it is eternal.
The fight against the counterfeiting of euro coins in the European Union has been relatively successful. The cooperation between the European Central Bank, Europol and OLAF has also been relatively efficient. Euro notes are of quite a high quality. But that does not diminish the importance of fighting counterfeiting. In my previous occupations I have had occasion to deal with the issue. The main problem is always the streets and dark bars where the counterfeit notes are put into circulation. That explains why EUR 500 notes are not found amongst counterfeit notes.
One specific question was about Turkey and Montenegro. Montenegro is a specific issue. It has the euro as an official currency. It is not so much a question of counterfeiting as of the monetary policy of the European Union. I know my colleagues are thinking about how to deal with that.
Turkey has promised – I have visited Turkey and discussed this with the Turkish authorities – to gradually phase out the coins that are quite similar to euro coins. To change the production process takes some time, but at least they have made a promise to do so."@en1
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