Text tabled : A7-0333/2011

  Maria do Céu Patrão Neves (PPE), in writing. – (PT) The consequences of organised crime have a profound impact on the commitments made by the EU to its citizens, so the institutions should make a real political effort to combat organised crime in order that it can achieve concrete and significant results. I agree with this premise, so I voted for this report, which details the policies that the EU can adopt with regard to key areas of organised criminal activity, in particular: the trafficking in and exploitation of human beings; international drug trafficking; arms trafficking; money laundering and financial crime; corruption; interpenetration and coexistence of organised crime, politics and the civil service, and misappropriation of public funds – in particular EU funds – by organised crime; ecomafias and environmental crimes; cybercrime; counterfeit products and related trafficking; and extortion and usury.