Translation of "instrument portant intérêt " (French → English) :

Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (12), hereinafter ‘the Financial Regulation’, and Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002 of 23 December 2002 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (13), which safeguard the Community’s financial interests, have to be applied, taking into account the principles of simplicity and consistency in the choice of budgetary instruments, a limitation on th ...[+++]e number of cases where the Commission retains direct responsibility for their implementation and management, and the required proportionality between the amount of resources and the administrative burden related to their use.

on the proposal for a Council decision authorising the Member States to sign, ratify or accede to, in the interest of the European Community, the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation of Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, and authorising Austria and Luxembourg, in the interest of the European Community, to accede to the underlying instruments

By letter of 8 January 2004 the Council requested Parliament's assent, under Article 300(3), second subparagraph, in conjunction with Articles 61 and 67 of the EC Treaty, on the proposal for a Council decision authorising the Member States to sign, ratify or accede to, in the interest of the European Community, the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation of Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, and authorising Austria and Luxembourg in the interest of the European Community, to accede to the underlying instruments (14389/20 ...[+++]03 – COM(2003) 534 – 2003/0209(AVC)).

The creation of OLAF has given the Community a powerful instrument for the protection of financial interests, the fight against fraud, corruption and all other illegal activities damaging to the Communities' financial interests.

6.6. In the short term it is vital to boost detection and exchange/act on information more, by putting into practice new legal instruments such as Council Regulation (EC) No 515/97 of 13 March 1997, on mutual assistance between the administrative authorities of the Member States and cooperation between the latter and the Commission to ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agricultural matters (9); Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November 1996, concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities' financial interests against fraud and ...[+++] other irregularities (10); Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995, on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests, which sets out administrative measures and penalties for irregularities with regard to Community law (11), and the CIS Convention on the use of information technology for customs purposes (12), which should be ratified with a view to cracking down on serious transit fraud.

Whilst these instruments are limited to criminal behaviour damaging the financial interests of the European Communities, the 1997 Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union criminalises active and passive transborder corruption within the EU territory, even when Communities financial interests are not affected.