Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024

Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka

74. Expresses Removed: concern about recent reports of corruption cases, Added: serious concern about documented cases of corruption, including allegations involving high-level Removed: officials in Ukraine; encourages Ukraine to continue its reforms, including efforts to address the influence of oligarchs, and Added: Ukrainian officials; recalls that the protection of the EU’s financial interests is a non-negotiable prerequisite for any disbursement of EU funds; calls on the Commission to Removed: further strengthen its oversight of EU-funded activities in the country; Added: immediately suspend further disbursements under the Ukraine Facility until a comprehensive and independent audit of all funds disbursed to date has been completed and published, and until the Commission has provided Parliament with verified evidence that Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutional framework – including the independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office – is fully operational and effective; considers that continued disbursement in the absence of adequate anti-corruption safeguards would constitute a failure of the EU to do its duty to protect taxpayers’ money; insists that any resumption of payments must be conditional on measurable and independently verified progress in the prosecution of high-level corruption cases and in the dismantling of oligarchic influence over public procurement; calls on the Commission to report to Parliament on a quarterly basis on the state of implementation of anti-corruption conditions under the Ukraine Facility;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.022v01-00