Improve the coordination among all the services and authorities involved in the return process in each Member State by June 2017 to ensure that all skills and expertise required are available for effective returns while respecting the rights of the returnees; Remove inefficiencies by shortening deadlines for appeals, systematically issuing return decisions that do not have an expiry date and combining decisions on the ending of a legal stay with the issuance of a return decision to avoid duplicate work; Tackle abuses of the system by making use of the possibil ...[+++]ity to assess asylum claims in accelerated or, where considered appropriate, border procedures when it is suspected asylum claims are made merely to delay the enforcement of a return decision; Prevent absconding by detaining people who have received a return decision and who show signs they will not comply such as refusal to cooperate in the identification process or opposing a return operation violently or fraudulently; Increase the effectiveness of return procedures and decisions by only granting voluntary departure if necessary and if a request is made and giving the shortest possible periods for voluntary departure, taking into account individual circumstances; Set up operational assisted voluntary return programmes by 1 June 2017 and ensure proper dissemination of information on voluntary return and assisted voluntary return and reintegration programmes.

(3) The collector or officer may, when the account or statement is made, or at any time thereafter, examine under oath, with respect to the truth of the statement, any person or persons employed or who have, at any time, been employed on or about the premises subject to excise, to which the account relates, or any person doing business therewith, selling material thereto or buying goods therefrom, and also any common carrier, agent, clerk or other person who has been concerned in the removal of any of the goods or material to or from any premises subject to excise, or in taking or keeping an account of those removals, and may reject all such written statements as are shown by the evidence to be incorrect ...[+++] or unreliable, and that rejection shall render the person making the return liable to the same punishment as he would be liable to if no return had been made.

(3) The collector or officer may, when the account or statement is made, or at any time thereafter, examine under oath, with respect to the truth of the statement, any person or persons employed or who have, at any time, been employed on or about the premises subject to excise, to which the account relates, or any person doing business therewith, selling material thereto or buying goods therefrom, and also any common carrier, agent, clerk or other person who has been concerned in the removal of any of the goods or material to or from any premises subject to excise, or in taking or keeping an account of those removals, and may reject all such written statements as are shown by the evidence to be incorrect ...[+++] or unreliable, and that rejection shall render the person making the return liable to the same punishment as he would be liable to if no return had been made.

Again, it's not to say some of this stuff won't get through the system. But there's a lot more it could be doing today, such as returning money that's been identified, which it won't do, and trying to make sure it's plugging all the holes it can to make sure its system isn't being used by fraudulent telemarketers as their number one system because it won't return it.