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Subido el 6 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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This firts report is a clollection of declarations by OLAF's principal partners from all over Europe in the fight against fraud and cross border crime, particularly the police and judicial services. They appear in alphabetical order of the countries and department names in their original language. On 1 January 2004, the Member States were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom; the accession countries were the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia; and the candidate countries were Bulgaria and Romania.

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OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, was set up on 1 June 1999 to replace EUCLAF, the 00:00:00
Unit for Coordination of Fraud Prevention, created in 1988 as part of the Secretariat 00:00:25
General of the Commission. 00:00:31
In creating OLAF, the European institutions wanted to provide themselves with an instrument 00:00:33
for fighting trans-border economic and financial crime, fraud and corruption that harms community 00:00:37
interests, in particular Europe's public finances. 00:00:42
With these first-hand accounts from its main operational partners in the fight against 00:00:46
fraud and cross-border crime, OLAF wishes to demonstrate to the people of Europe the 00:00:50
benefits of this cooperation. 00:00:54
This video on OLAF and international cooperation has been produced in close cooperation with 00:01:12
the members of OLAF's Anti-Fraud Communicators Network, which is made up of public relations 00:01:17
and communication officials in OLAF and in the national departments, which are its principal 00:01:22
partners in the member states and the candidate countries. 00:01:26
It is intended to provide the public with better information about the anti-fraud cooperation 00:01:30
that exists between community institutions and national departments. 00:01:34
Council of Ministers Decree No. 18 of 4 February 2003 established a council in Bulgaria for 00:02:04
coordinating the fight against offences which damage the European community's financial 00:02:22
interests and to serve as a national contact point for OLAF. 00:02:27
Its main purpose is to give guidance, propose measures and monitor the progress and coordination 00:02:31
of authorities' activities involved in detecting and preventing offences relating to European 00:02:36
Union funding. 00:02:42
The best way to coordinate the national expertise and the capacity of different structures in 00:02:47
member states of the European Union is to have the mediation and coordination function 00:02:53
of OLAF. 00:03:00
Belgium's Federal Prosecutor's Office began to operate on the 21st of May 2002. 00:03:07
It is made up of a federal prosecutor, 18 federal judges and an administrative management 00:03:12
team. 00:03:17
As well as its national duties, the Federal Prosecutor's Office facilitates international 00:03:19
cooperation and acts as the main judicial contact point for international criminal tribunals, 00:03:23
Eurojust, OLAF and others. 00:03:28
With OLAF together we try to exchange information, to analyse information. 00:03:33
We try to identify together competent judicial authorities in Belgium. 00:03:38
We coordinate investigations when different local authorities are concerned or OLAF and 00:03:43
my office we try to conduct together cross-border police operations, for example for cigarette 00:03:49
trafficking cases. 00:03:56
The Federal Police Force has been in existence since the 1st of January 2001 and has some 00:04:05
12,150 officers. 00:04:10
It performs specialist supralocal administrative and judicial policing missions as well as 00:04:13
providing support for individual units, both in the local police and the federal police 00:04:18
itself. 00:04:23
I think the collaboration between OLAF and this law enforcement agency has always been 00:04:28
excellent. 00:04:33
We are neighbours in Brussels and therefore partners as well and you can see that because 00:04:34
many of the collaborators of this direction, my direction, already work in OLAF. 00:04:39
It's a pity on the other hand that there is no national expert in OLAF from the police 00:04:45
side. 00:04:51
In the Czech Republic, the General Prosecutor's Office is at the top of the Public Prosecution 00:05:07
Service. 00:05:11
It works mainly on criminal matters but it also has important civil and administrative 00:05:13
responsibilities. 00:05:17
The Office for Combating Customs Offences is a linchpin of the German Customs Investigation 00:05:45
Department. 00:05:50
It reports to the Federal Ministry of Finance. 00:05:51
It assists the Customs Administration in collecting tax revenues, plays a part in verifying community 00:05:54
expenditure and detecting cases of tax fraud and is responsible for monitoring the market. 00:05:59
As a central institution, the Customs Administration works closely with international administrators 00:06:13
and the European Union, therefore with OLAF. 00:06:20
This work is now on a worldwide scale, particularly in connection with textile imports from Asia. 00:06:23
This has been the case since the 1980s when we worked with EUCLAF, OLAF's predecessor. 00:06:31
For Guardia Civil's many responsibilities include the obligation to enforce customs 00:06:55
regulations. 00:07:00
It takes action to prevent and prosecute smuggling and fraud and is responsible for operational 00:07:01
cooperation with other national and foreign agencies. 00:07:06
There are a number of examples, but cooperation with OLAF has been critical, in some particular 00:07:14
fraud cases involving flax, oil and citrus fruits. 00:07:34
In France, the Customs and Indirect Taxation Service leads the efforts to combat fraud 00:07:53
against the community's financial interests, essentially due to its role in recovering 00:07:58
the European Union's own resources and in monitoring community agricultural aid. 00:08:02
This is why the service comes under the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry. 00:08:09
One method of fraud involves concealing the origin of products and processing them in 00:08:28
other countries. 00:08:33
This happened in 2002 with a case involving stainless steel wire. 00:08:34
It was produced in India under conditions allowing it to be sold in Europe at below 00:08:39
market price. 00:08:44
The products were packed and sent to the United Arab Emirates to make it look as if they came 00:08:52
from the UAE, which benefits from a preferential trade agreement with the European Union. 00:08:57
With its 11,800 police officers, the Gwadar Sikana is Ireland's national police force. 00:09:21
Its mission is to guarantee the highest possible level of individual protection, respect for 00:09:27
community rules and state security. 00:09:31
Unusually for police force, its uniformed officers do not carry firearms. 00:09:34
When the introduction of the euro on that first day, on the first of January, on that 00:09:43
day, Ireland unfortunately had the first counterfeit euro note passed and of course that was a 00:09:48
huge international story. 00:09:56
It was expected within the Union, but we in Ireland did not expect to be the first one. 00:09:58
I was able to share all of the experiences in relation to that particular time, how we 00:10:04
handled the media, how we had the cooperation with the different banking institutions. 00:10:11
Italy's Carabinieri are a military police force with general law enforcement powers 00:10:27
and responsibility for maintaining public safety. 00:10:32
It plays an active role in combating the counterfeiting of banknotes, coins and credit cards and maintains 00:10:35
contacts with specialist counterparts in other countries via OLAF. 00:10:40
We have a very good level of cooperation with OLAF and we fight together against all forms 00:10:50
of frauds against citizens of the European Union. 00:10:59
Of course Europe is something which is growing day by day and so we need to improve it day 00:11:04
by day. 00:11:11
Ever since it was established, Italy's Guardia di Finanza has played the role of tax police, 00:11:27
a commitment that is the number one priority. 00:11:31
The fight against tax evasion has gradually been extended to cover all types of irregularities 00:11:34
that compromise the budgets of the State and the European Union. 00:11:39
We're very much aware that with the disappearance of borders within the European Union and then 00:11:57
enlargement, criminal organizations are going to widen their activities. 00:12:03
Cooperation will therefore become vital in the fight against organized crime. 00:12:08
The National Police are in charge of guaranteeing public order and security and preventing and 00:12:28
dealing with crime. 00:12:33
It has police stations, inter-regional headquarters and provincial and local offices. 00:12:35
Economic and financial fraud on a community level represent a serious threat to the interests 00:12:57
of the European Union and therefore to national interests. 00:13:02
The social impact is such that this phenomenon must be tackled by coordinated international 00:13:06
action. 00:13:12
The police in Cyprus are responsible for general law and order in the country. 00:13:26
They maintain close and permanent contact with a wide range of institutions and organizations 00:13:31
including OLAF, both in Cyprus and overseas. 00:13:35
I believe that through the OLAF and the Fraud Communicator Network meeting, by exchanging 00:13:43
of information, knowledges and practical experience among the organization and the 00:13:56
participants of each member country, we'll be more efficient and effective to prevent 00:14:03
and investigate fraud. 00:14:12
The tasks of the Lithuanian Customs Service are to protect the market and society, to 00:14:26
collect customs duties and taxes and to prevent and investigate customs offences. 00:14:36
We are delighted with the joint activities of the Customs Criminal Service and OLAF, 00:14:45
the result of which is detention of over 25 million units of smuggled cigarettes. 00:14:52
However, our belief is that adequate attention must be paid by the Lithuanian Customs, not 00:15:01
only to prevent an active fight against smuggling, but also to fruitful cooperation with colleagues 00:15:08
from other countries of the world, so that as few as possible get involved in the crimes 00:15:16
of this nature. 00:15:22
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