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"I am delighted that my MEP colleagues have approved the report I prepared on combating fraud in the European Union. According to data provided by the Commission, EUR 120 billion is lost to fraud every year in the EU, but the true scale of fraud in the EU is simply unknown because of the absence of reliable data. From 1989, when the Commission began to provide the European Parliament and the Council with annual reports, until the present, it is safe to say that neither the Commission nor the institution responsible for combating fraud – OLAF – have had reliable data from the Member States about the true scale of fraud. This is acknowledged by the Commission itself, which states in its annual report that the data it provides in its annual report must be interpreted with caution. I believe that this situation must be changed fundamentally. One of the main provisions in the report adopted by Parliament states that the Commission must take full responsibility for recovering unduly paid EU funds and for the collection of correct, necessary and comparable data from the Member States, thereby enabling us to have accurate and correct data in future which would allow the extent of fraud in the Member States to be assessed objectively and help combat the illegal use of EU funds more effectively."@en1
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