14. Regrets the fact that corruption remains common; encourages the Government to implement anti-corruption measures and measures in relation to the conflict of interest, including the new Law on Political Party Financing, in a consistent manner; considers it essential to build up a track record in terms of investigations and convictions, in particular in high-level corruption cases, to further strengthen preventive tools and awareness-raising campaigns and to protect citizens’ reporting on corruption cases; stresses the need to reinforce inter-agency cooperation, enhance related administrative capacities of the supervisory institutio ...[+++]ns and implement the respective recommendations of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in order to increase the transparency in the funding of political parties and election campaigns; calls for concrete results to be achieved in the investigation of high-level corruption cases, including a re-assessment of controversial privatisation cases;

In the EU Policy Cycle to fight serious and organised crime, Member States have recognised in the strategic goals and operational actions the importance of being innovative, multidisciplinary and proactive to better investigate and prosecute cases of trafficking in human beings.

G. whereas on 12 January 2012 it was reported that a Russian ship, allegedly carrying arms and/or munitions destined for the Syrian government had reached Syria after having been inspected in Cypriot waters off Limassol; whereas the ship, destined for the Syrian port city of Latakia, was reportedly prevented by Cypriot customs from continuing its journey because of its suspected cargo; whereas Cypriot custom officials were unable to open four containers on the ship, it was concluded they contained ‘dangerous cargo’ – i.e. arms and munitions; whereas the Cypriot Foreign Ministry confirmed that the ship was allowed to continue its journ ...[+++]ey after the crew of the ship and its Russian owners ‘provided assurances’ that it would not head for Syria; whereas the ship is believed to have set off from St Petersburg in early December 2011;

8. A continued Union financial underpinning is needed to enable the Union to implement and further develop its Integrated Maritime Policy in line with the European Parliament Resolution of 20 May 2008 on the Integrated Maritime Policy[11] and to pursue its overarching objectives as set out in the Commission’s Blue Paper of October 2007, confirmed in the Progress Report of October 2009 and endorsed by the General Affairs Council conclusions ...[+++] of 16 November 2009.

- On policy issues related to Enron: noted that most of the regulatory issues highlighted by Enron are already being tackled in the context of the FSAP (International Accounting Standards, Regulatory Reporting) and welcomed further Commission work on auditor independence, priority for the EU auditing strategy, financial analysts and credit rating agencies.

In order to maintain the Court’s capacity, in the face of an ever-increasing caseload, to dispose within a reasonable period of time of the cases brought before it, it is also necessary to continue the efforts made to reduce the duration of proceedings before the Court, in particular by extending the opportunities for the Court to rule by reasoned order, simplifying the rules relating to the intervention of the States and institutions referred to in the first and third paragraphs of Article 40 of the Statute and providing for the Court to be able to rule without a hearing if it considers that it has sufficient information on the basis of ...[+++] all the written observations lodged in a case.