50. Stresses the importance of stepping up cooperation by developing effective systematic communication and promoting information-sharing between judicial and law enforcement agencies among Member States, Europol, Eurojust, OLAF and ENISA, and with the corresponding authorities in non-EU countries, especially the EU's neighbouring countries, on the basis of proper data protection and procedural rights standards, with a view to improving systems for gathering evidence and to enabling data and information relevant to the investigation of offences, including those against the EU's financial interests, to be processed and exchanged effectively with increased accuracy and speed of exchange, in full compliance with the principles of subsidiarity ...[+++]and proportionality and with EU fundamental rights; reiterates that the collection, storing and processing of personal data in the course of addressing organised crime, corruption and money laundering must in all circumstances comply with the data protection principles laid down in the ECHR, the EU Charter and secondary EU legislation; furthermore, stresses the need to achieve a higher degree of democratic and fundamental rights accountability of the activities of Europol and Eurojust in their upcoming review;

47. Stresses the importance of stepping up cooperation by developing effective systematic communication and promoting information-sharing between judicial and law enforcement agencies among Member States, Europol, Eurojust, OLAF and ENISA, and with the corresponding authorities in non-EU countries, especially the EU's neighbouring countries, on the basis of proper data protection and procedural rights standards, with a view to improving systems for gathering evidence and to enabling data and information relevant to the investigation of offences, including those against the EU's financial interests, to be processed and exchanged effectively with increased accuracy and speed of exchange, in full compliance with the principles of subsidiarity ...[+++]and proportionality and with EU fundamental rights; reiterates that the collection, storing and processing of personal data in the course of addressing organised crime, corruption and money laundering must in all circumstances comply with the data protection principles laid down in the ECHR, the EU Charter and secondary EU legislation; furthermore, stresses the need to achieve a higher degree of democratic and fundamental rights accountability of the activities of Europol and Eurojust in their upcoming review;

(a) 'where, regardless of the quality of the persons who committed them, the offences in question caused material damage greater than the equivalent in Romanian Lei of EUR 200 000, or where they caused particularly serious disturbance to the activity of a public authority, public institution or any other legal person, or where the value of the sum or asset which is the subject of the corruption offence is greater than the equivalent in Romanian Lei of EUR 10 000;

15. Notes that the Financial Regulation has constantly been violated at Eurostat since 1999 and that the management of Eurostat neither responded to the reports of the internal audit units by taking decisive action nor informed those in positions of responsibility within Eurostat unambiguously about abuses which had occurred; whilst no Commissioner has so far accepted political responsibility for the abuses at Eurostat, nonetheless recognises that Commissoners admitted mistakes and made efforts to develop an action plan to avoid future recurrences of this kind of intolerable situation;

One mistake in transposing those provisions in some Member States consisted in confining protection to relations between workers and their superiors, thus excluding co-workers or other third parties.

The terms 'serious penalties' include criminal penalties as well as the further tax penalties applicable to infringements committed with intent to defraud or in which the fine applicable is of an amount exceeding 1 000 000 (one million) Portuguese escudos.