Schutz der finanziellen Interessen der Europäischen Union – Betrugsbekämpfung – Jahresbericht 2024

Eingereicht von Carla Tavares

Hinzugefügt: 25a. Regrets the fact that, under the Conditionality Regulation, only two formal notifications have been sent and measures have been decided in only a single case, despite successive worrying findings in the Commission’s annual rule of law reports, findings by OLAF that were made public in the Commission’s annual reports on the protection of the EU’s financial interests, and findings by the EPPO that point to budgetary risks in several Member States; underlines that the gap between findings and enforcement undermines the regulation’s credibility and weakens its preventive function in protecting the EU’s financial interests; recalls the ECA warning that decisions on blocking or releasing funds, which require a qualified majority in the Council, are often intertwined with unrelated high-level negotiations that require unanimity; underlines that decisions to protect EU financial interests must be based on technical and legal findings and cannot be subjected to bargaining under the threat of blocking decisions requiring unanimity in the Council;

Wortlaut wie vom EP veröffentlicht, auf Englisch. PE783.022v01-00