Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-11-20-Speech-4-067"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Investigations conducted by the European Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081120.4.4-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-11-20-Speech-4-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Markus Pieper2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2006-07-03--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the Member States, Europol and Eurojust will now have to concern themselves on a regular basis with OLAF's findings. The information provided by the European Anti-Fraud Office will pass directly to the police and to the justice system and will be binding. As a member of the Committee on Regional Development, I warmly welcome this reform. OLAF must make use of its new powers, because the structural funds are a major problem for us. The number of irregularities has increased dramatically and the amount of damages rose from EUR 43 million in 1998 to EUR 828 million in 2007. This increase is not acceptable. Therefore, it is good that we are improving the controls and the prosecution process. However, we must also press more strongly for the Member States to publish the names of their subsidy recipients. We should also explain one of the causes of the abuse. I am of the opinion that we put too little emphasis on the responsibility of the regions when we allocate the funds. For this reason, we must increase the mandatory joint financing by the regions and the project promoters and we must offer more loan-based programmes. If the recipients of the funding can identify more closely with the potential lasting success of their projects, there will be less abuse and less work for OLAF."@en1
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