Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

30.4.2025 A10-0049/13

Amendment 13

Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0049/2025

Gilles Boyer

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

(2024/2083(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14b. Regrets that the Commission does not publish relevant information and that its financial transparency system does not yet provide clear and complete information on funds provided in 2024 to external organisations;

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30.4.2025 A10-0049/14

Amendment 14

Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0049/2025

Gilles Boyer

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

(2024/2083(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36a. Calls for all NGOs to be audited to check whether they have a profit motive; notes that some reported remuneration of directors of NGOs seems excessive and requires further justification; notes that director(s) remuneration should be public; recalls that all NGOs that receive EU funds, directly or indirectly should fulfil the NGO definition of the 2024 financial regulation;

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30.4.2025 A10-0049/15

Amendment 15

Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0049/2025

Gilles Boyer

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

(2024/2083(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 68 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

68a. Expresses deep concern over the case of former Director-General of DG MOVE, Henrik Hololei, who, according to media reports, was found by OLAF to have accepted flights and gifts from Qatar while leading negotiations on the EU-Qatar air transport agreement and disclosed confidential information in return; regrets that, despite OLAF forwarding its findings to the President of the Commission in July 2024, neither the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) nor the competent Belgian authorities seem to have taken up this matter; calls for an investigation into why this report had apparently not been shared with the relevant prosecutorial authorities by the Commission;

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30.4.2025 A10-0049/16

Amendment 16

Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0049/2025

Gilles Boyer

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

(2024/2083(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 68 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

68b. Calls on the anti-fraud services to investigate whether the legal weaknesses in the contracts above EUR 1 billion negotiated by the Commission are due to incompetence or mal-intent (for example: the EMA building in London; conditions not allowing the Member States to ‘get out’ of the Pfizer contract; companies not facing any consequences in the event of side effects; a massive variable-rate loan just before the rise in rates);

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30.4.2025 A10-0049/17

Amendment 17

Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0049/2025

Gilles Boyer

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

(2024/2083(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 70 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

70a. Calls on the Commission to invite opposition members of Parliament and experts with no links to the Commission to take part in its various ethics committees and anti-fraud procedures to strengthen the monitoring system; notes the predominant presence of EU staff and former members of the political coalition of the President of the European Commission within the European Anti-fraud office and the ECA;

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30.4.2025 A10-0049/18

Amendment 18

Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0049/2025

Gilles Boyer

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023

(2024/2083(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 73 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

73a. Believes the conditionality mechanism has been used against Hungary, Poland and other governments for ridicule or political reasons by the Commission and has a corrosive effect that is extremely damaging to the relationship of trust between the Member States and could destroy our countries’ Union;

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