European Parliament
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris  (PPE ),
in writing.
(IT)
The annual report 2010 on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests includes the latest information on irregularities and cases of suspected fraud reported by Member States. The report examines the risk of double financing in cohesion policy. This situation is unsatisfactory because, if the Commission’s annual reports are based on inaccurate data which cannot be compared, this raises questions about its purpose overall. We should therefore be necessarily wary of these data since they are not totally reliable. The aim of this vote is actually to clarify the issue so that the real scale of fraud in the Member States can be established.

