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dcterms:Date	"2011-04-05"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110405.20.2-423-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-29--2012-02-12)3 vice-chair; CONT (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Groen (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2012-02-05)3
lpv:translated text	". Reporting fraud and irregularities is very important for the legislator, as it gives us an insight into how resources are spent. It provides us with an insight into what may be going wrong. It provides us with an insight into what can be improved. In that context, this report is very important indeed. I think that, following the debate in Parliament’s anti-fraud committee, we can stand by the following conclusions. First of all, the reports need to be more precise. They need to provide a real insight into the actual scope of irregularities and fraud. Secondly, the Member States need to improve their reporting. This is sub-optimal at the moment, and I use the term advisedly. We therefore need to put pressure on the Member States to improve this, with sanctions if necessary. Thirdly, those resources that are wrongly spent must actually be recovered, and the Commission must take the necessary steps to ensure that this is the case. We should also discuss this when discussing the granting of discharge in Strasbourg next month. Italy is a problem child in this regard. Fourthly, we need to better monitor the mandatory notification of irregularities by the Member States. The lack of reports from Spain and France is particularly odd in this regard. I am the permanent rapporteur for own resources and, as such, I would also like to direct a word of thanks and congratulations to the Commission and, above all, to the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) and its anti-cigarettes and tobacco fraud unit, whose results have been quite staggering and very impressive. Operation Diabolo II – it is said – was a peach of a collaborative operation, and the agreements reached with British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco were equally outstanding. This will yield us EUR 500 million. There is just one thing though – it is important that this money does not simply disappear into the national exchequers of the Member States. This money must actually be used – by the Commission, yes, but predominantly by the Member States – to strengthen anti-fraud measures in the Member States. This is really a very important point. The money that results from this agreement must be put to use in the fight against fraud."@en1
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