What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Removed:21. Is concerned about the reports that OLAF’s investigation into corruption and conflicts of interest concerning Member of the European Parliament has been obstructed by the lack of access to their offices and work devices; calls on its President to grant OLAF access to the premises and all of the necessary information required for the sake of investigations;

Added:21. Notes the fact that OLAF currently does not have, under any circumstances, access to Members’ offices, computers and email accounts, even when investigating cases linked to Members based on a substantiated suspicion; underlines the need to have an adequate procedure for granting access to OLAF in cases of substantiated suspicions against individual Members; calls on the Bureau to set up such a procedure;

Changed:25. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has included a specific section on anti-corruption in its annual report on the rule of law in order to provide an in-depth comparative analysis of the approaches, procedures and tools used by the Member States in their fight against corruption and to help to assess which areas are most at risk; asks the Commission to always include recommendations and follow-up observations for Member States for all sections of the rule of law report; reiterates the importance of fully addressing country-specific recommendations relating to corruption; calls on the Member States to take into account the findings of the the rule of law report when developing their anti-corruption policies; calls on the Commission to intervene and support the Member States in addressing structural challenges regarding their anti-corruption capacity;

Added:47. Regrets the lack of transparency in the spending of public money by the Commission during the COVID-19 pandemic; regrets the fact that the Commission has not yet published a report on COVID-19-related expenditure;

Changed:122.123. Recommends the suspension of budgetary support in non-EU countries, including candidate countries, where the authorities manifestly fail to take genuine action against widespread corruption, while ensuring that the assistance reaches the civil population through alternative channels; calls for greater priority to be given to the fight against corruption in pre-accession negotiations, with a focus on capacity building, such as via specialised anti-corruption bodies; calls on the Commission to send clear signals to candidate countries that a backlash against rule of law standards will jeopardise or delay accession to the EU; regrets the fact that, according to ECA Special report No 01/2022, EUR 700 million in financial support for the improvement of the rule of law in the Western Balkans provided by the EU between 2014 and 2020 had little impact on fundamental reforms;