Übersetzung für "Der zigarettenschmuggel" in Englisch

At the start of the 1990s, fraud involving cigarette smuggling was found to be big business.

Cigarette smuggling is the best example.

Among other things, the gasoline and cigarette smuggling will try to be tackled as well as more debts collected.

I am referring, for example, to cigarette smuggling, which is a major, direct obstacle to the European budget.

This regulation is part of a package of regulations that aims at strengthening mutual assistance by the competent authorities of the Member States, in this case in the field of excise duties, in which tobacco smuggling is particularly significant.

Cigarette smuggling has almost replaced drug trafficking, due to the enormous profit margins that can be exploited without the same degree of risk in terms of penal sanctions.

I believe that Parliament is now convinced that constantly increasing the price of cigarettes does not achieve the objective, which I support, of reducing smoking; all it does is to reduce legal sales of cigarettes and encourage cigarette smuggling which, in some countries, has reached worrying proportions.

This is especially true in that cigarette smuggling takes place not between European countries with differing excise duty levels - and we would point out that excise duties in the United States vary from State to State - but from outside Europe to inside Europe: cigarettes are smuggled from Montenegro across the Adriatic and by this route to the whole of Europe.

This applies in particular to complex cases, which involve organised economic crime such as cigarette smuggling, the case of the adulterated butter or the fraudulent banana imports.

Today’s agreement reflects the reality that success in defeating the contraband and counterfeit cigarette trade can be aided greatly through a joint agreement whereby major manufacturers like Philip Morris International and European law enforcement combine their resources and enhance their coordination in combating contraband and counterfeiting.

Today’s agreement reflects the reality that success in defeating the contraband and counterfeit cigarettes trade can be aided greatly through a joint agreement whereby major manufacturers like JTI and European law enforcement combine their resources and enhance their coordination in combating contraband and counterfeiting.

Relevant initiatives should include enhancing police and customs cooperation through common training, amongst others in cooperation with CEPOL and Europol, exchange of best practices, joint investigations, in particular in the investigation of cross-border crimes, joint customs operations coordinated by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), etc. In that regard initiatives such as the EuroEast police, aimed at increasing cooperation in the areas of internal security improvement in the EU and Eastern Partnership countries, and the Annual Task Group Cigarettes Conferences organised by OLAF, should be further promoted and developed.

Such a variation derives naturally from the decreasing number of cases and also from the smaller impact of the file Milk Products of New-Zealand57, which accounts for no more than 0.50% of established amounts in 2001 as against 55.66% in 2000, as well as of cigarettes.

Cigarette smuggling, by its very nature, ignores borders and threatens citizens all over the world.

Cigarette smuggling is a way of opening up national markets.

Indeed, cigarette smuggling is now a genuinely pan-European problem, as the crime begins to match the opportunity and the corresponding criminal organisations spring up.

Lastly, mention should be made of the importance, at least for one EU Member State, of the direct smuggling of cigarettes from neighbouring territories which do not belong to the customs territory of the EU; this is the case with Gibraltar and Andorra in particular.

Tritschler. - (FR) Mr Chairman, allow me to answer the questions in rather general terms.

In 1996, for instance, cigarette smuggling, mainly in the transit regime, totalled ECU 800 m.

Mr President, for a long time, cigarette smuggling has had a rather romantic appeal in Italy, which it acquired particularly after the war thanks to the influence of neorealist films.

The programme also provided funding for the purchase by OLAF of specialist technical equipment and technical support for monitoring illegal activity in order to combat cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting (see point 5.9.2).

Smuggling of cigarettes has decreased substantially due to the harmonisation of excise duties with neighbouring countries and the introduction of Kosovo banderols in 2003.

According to the Spanish national union of tobacconists' associations, the contraband trade in cigarettes in the EC is currently growing in a scandalous fashion.

At the same time, with EU-enlargement and the emergence of new economic and industrial powers such as China, India and Brazil, the European and international environment has changed considerably.

International cigarette smuggling is a current concern, resulting in extensive tax avoidance, which leads to significant financial damage to the government budget, through loss of revenue.

To deal with the problem, EU finance ministers endorsed the Council conclusions which emphasize the need for the EU to strengthen the fight against cigarette smuggling and other forms of illicit trade in tobacco products.

On January 27, 2018, Anatoly Baronin. representative of the analytical group Da Vinci AG, on the UNIAN website also described one of the likely schemes of supply of contraband cigarettes from Syria through the port of Ochamchire.