The business environment continued to deteriorate due to targeted actions against critical media and business people and political opponents through the active use of the tax authority, the financial crimes unit and courts.

A policy of zero tolerance on fraud against the EU requires putting in place adequate measures so that acts of fraud are prosecuted evenly across the Union.

In contrast, all requests sent to the President of Romania for lifting of immunities of Ministers were accepted.[43] There have however been no clear rules established to follow up the CVM recommendation to ensure swift application of the Constitutional rules on suspension of Ministers on indictment and to suspend parliamentarians subject to negative integrity rulings or corruption convictions.[44] The fact that Ministers continue in office after indictment on criminal charges, and parliamentarians with final convictions for corruption to stay in office, raises broader issues about the attitudes towards corruption in the Romanian political world.

- standards for a European policy on substance abuse, which takes account of today's realities, which covers the entire range of legal and illegal substances and which treats drug dependence as an illness and not as a crime.

– Mr President, whether or not it should be permissible to sell goods which prisoners have been compelled to make must depend on whether the prisoners have committed real offences, as distinct from political ones – of course in China we know exactly what the offences are – on whether the judicial system is fair and, certainly, on whether prisoners are being kept in humane conditions, which they are certainly not in the laogai.

2. When following up an infringement of rules of the common fisheries policy, a Member State may request other Member States to provide information contained in their national register on the fishing vessels and persons suspected of having committed the infringement in question or caught in the act of committing the infringement in question.