Examples of using Cross-border fraud in English and their translations into German
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Lack of effective recovery arrangements thereby encourages cross-border fraud.
Combating cross-border fraud still remains a major area of concern despite recent successes.
Thanks to the Lisbon Treaty, we have strengthened the legal tools to tackle cross-border fraud.”.
It is precisely against this cross-border fraud that measures that are the same across different European countries are needed.
It is like a customs system, but lacks equivalent controls andis therefore the root of a significant amount of cross-border fraud see.
It is extremely difficult to prosecute cross-border fraud, partly because evidence collected in one Member State does not count in another Member State.
Let us focus on reducing the administrative burden for small and medium-sized businesses andlet us help EU citizens who have been affected by this cross-border fraud.
The fight must target cross-border fraud, corruption and crimes against the financial interests of the European Community just as much as computer crime.
The"VAT gap" between expected revenue andrevenue actually collected is estimated at EUR 170 billion5, while cross-border fraud alone accounts for EUR 50 billion of revenue loss each year;6.
The prosecution of cross-border fraud against the Community budget still all too often comes to halt at the borders not just of fifteen but seventeen different legal systems, and the number will rise with enlargement.
While we should not claim any competences where we do not have them,matters such as internal market rules, the fight against racism and cross-border fraud do indeed fall within the EU's remit.
Faced with the alarming increase in organised crime and cross-border fraud and the complexity of such cases, the traditional legal instruments are no longer enough.
Whatever your views on the EU, whether you are sceptical about further integration or you want more Europe, we should be focusing on making the EU and the Internal Market work better,but also tackling cross-border fraud.
The role of the European Prosecutor would be to tackle cross-border fraud by means of the adoption of specific rules making it possible to combat that fraud, including the definition of crimes.
The logic of a need for specific revenue applies also in modern Europe, where a reformed fiscal system might include common administration ofvalue-added tax with the additional benefit of eliminating a considerable amount of cross-border fraud.
Therefore, this change should reduce cross-border fraud by about EUR 40 billion(80%) a year in the EU.36 The intermediate and final consumption of the goods will continue to be taxed where the goods are transported to, which is a reliable proxy of the place of consumption.
Many respondents proposed that stricter Community choice-of-court rules be laid down117 to make it possible to fulfil the foreseeability andlegality requirements while taking into account the specific character of cross-border fraud.
In its resolution of 2 September 2008 on a coordinated strategy to improve the fight against fiscal fraud(2008/2033(INI)),the European Parliament stressed that the Member States cannot combat cross-border fraud in isolation and called on the Commission to propose mechanisms to promote cooperation between Member States.
We also clearly need to supplement the current Treaty provisions on the protection of the Community's financial interests by a legal basis providing for a European prosecutor andfacilitating the adoption of rules on criminal proceedings in cases of cross-border fraud.
In order to achieve that, I consider it essential to adopt measures that establish greater transparency in the fight against tax fraud- especially in VAT- and all financial crimes;greater cooperation between governments in the case of cross-border fraud; improvements in the quality of data and constant updating of national databases; and rapid responses by governments to requests for information.
I should like briefly to go into the subject of"What happens next in the legislative area?" and point out that the Commission has proposed for the Intergovernmental Conference, which is responsible for revising the Treaties, that the present system for protecting the financial interests be supplemented by a legal basis creating a European Public Prosecutor andallowing provisions on the criminal prosecution of cross-border fraud to be adopted.
The inspectors' presence from another Member State in administrative offices and their participation in administrative enquiries can be extremely useful,in particular where there are indications of irregularities or large-scale cross-border fraud in one or more Member States; in cases whose complexity makes the presence of officials desirable; or in cases for which the prescription period is due to expire and where the presence of officials can speed up the enquiry.
These include the need for each card scheme to define and publicly disclose a medium to long-term strategy which is consistent with the objectives of SEPA; to protect confidentiality of personal data; to contribute to the design of standards with a clear commitment for implementation on time; to have a strategy on how to reduce fraud, and especially cross-border fraud; and to foster competition.
In its opinion for the Intergovernmental Conference(IGC 2000), the Commission proposed to supplement the current provisions relating to the protection of Community's financial interests by providing a legal base aimed at establishing asystem of rules relating to criminal proceedings in cross-border fraud, notably by the establishment of a European public prosecutor.