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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is no doubt that this package is an important piece of the jigsaw, but it still needs to be implemented in practice. Anti-fraud and anti-corruption strategies are part of a package which must put a firm stop to the rampant growth of this problem affecting all the Member States.
While greater cooperation is necessary between Member States, what we need above all is a shake-up of public procurement procedures, because although it is true that this is a problem that concerns the private sector, there is no doubt that the public sector is particularly affected by it, too.
We must protect honest business owners and citizens and instead punish those who fraudulently breach market regulations and the ground rules, in order to protect the licit economy. This must be achieved with political will, as Commissioner Malmström stated, and by a package that must be applied to individual Member States, too, because, if the legislation is to be implemented in practice, as indeed it must be, then the Member States still have a lot of work to do.
We need tough, consistent and bold penalties that result in powerful and, why not, innovative measures against organised crime in the most significant cases; I refer in particular to seizure and confiscation. These are concrete measures that will probably ensure the zero tolerance to which Commissioner Malmström rightly referred."@en1
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