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The crypto-asset sector, while still relatively new, has already changed the world of payments and investment forever. The fast-changing, mobile nature of the sector and its growing market prominence poses challenges, however, for tax authorities, which are not always able to track the capital gains made from trading crypto-assets. On 8 December 2022, the European Commission proposed to set up a reporting framework which would require crypto-asset service providers to report transactions made by ...

A debate and vote on the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) report on the 2021 annual report on the protection of the EU's financial interests (PIF report), prepared by the European Commission, are scheduled for the January I plenary session. The PIF report details measures taken at European and national level to counter fraud affecting the EU budget. The number of cases of fraud and irregularities remained stable in 2021 compared to 2020, but the sums involved increased to €3.24 billion, due ...

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is widely recognised as a significant environmental, economic and social problem. It represents a major threat to marine ecosystems, a disruption for the seafood market, and an unfair disadvantage for responsible fishermen. Combatting IUU fishing has become a key means for achieving sustainable management of global fisheries. While the root cause of IUU fishing is states' failure to discipline vessels operating under their flag, tackling this phenomenon ...

The EU has made substantial progress in terms of protecting its citizens since the early 1990s. This has often been in response to dramatic incidents, such as murders committed by the mafia or other organised crime groups or big money-laundering scandals, or to negative trends, such as the steep increase in migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings following the 2015 migration crisis. More recently, it was necessary to respond to the sharp rise in cybercrime, fraud and counterfeiting during ...

Die Studie zum Thema „Mögliche Lösungen gegen Missing-Trader-Mehrwertsteuerbetrug in der EU“ wurde vom Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services LLP für das Europäische Parlament durchgeführt.

The IUU Regulation (1005/2008) is the core of the EU’s legal framework for action against global IUU fishing. Its primary objective is to prevent, deter and eliminate the trade of IUU-caught products into the EU. One of its key components is a multiple-step procedure for dealing with non-EU countries considered uncooperative in the fight against IUU fishing. Sixth edition. This infographic further updates an earlier one, the previous edition of which was in March 2021. For more information on IUU ...

Die in den Projektvorgaben festgelegten Ziele dieser Studie bestanden darin, •Hauptmuster von Betrugsfällen zulasten der EU-Kohäsionspolitik in verschiedenen EU-Mitgliedstaatenzu ermitteln und zu analysieren, •zu prüfen, ob es spezifische Muster gibt, in denen Betrug begangen wird, und ob dieVerwaltungsbehörden dies verhindern könnten, indem sie solche Muster früher erkennen, •bewährte Verfahren in dieser Hinsicht und die Mittel, die die Verwaltungsbehörden der erfolgreicherenMitgliedstaaten nutzen ...

The Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) organised the workshop on ‘Missing Trader Fraud: definition, effects, prevention and solutions’ on 26 May 2021. This document consists of the proceedings briefing on ‘Missing Trader Intra-Community Fraud’, biographies of the speakers and the PowerPoint slides of the presentations.

Deepfakes are hyper-realistic media products created through artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that manipulate how people look and the things that they appear to say or do. They hit the headlines in 2018 with a deepfake video of Barack Obama, which was designed to raise awareness of their challenges. The accessibility and outputs of deepfake generation tools are improving rapidly, and their use is increasing exponentially. A wide range of malicious uses have been identified, including fraud ...

Am 3. September 2020 veröffentlichte die Europäische Kommission ihren 31. Jahresbericht über die Bekämpfung von Betrug, der die finanziellen Interessen der EU betrifft, im Jahr 2019. Insgesamt wurden der Kommission 11 726 Fälle von Unregelmäßigkeiten gemeldet; das sind 2 % weniger als 2018. Betroffen waren Beträge in Höhe von etwa 1,6 Mrd. EUR, d. h. 34 % weniger im Vergleich zum Vorjahr. Der Haushaltskontrollausschuss des Parlaments hat einen Bericht über den Jahresbericht der Kommission angenommen ...