Regulation roundup

摘要

Sugar has been at the centre of continuing concern about fraud draining European Union (EU) budgets of duty revenue. The latest operational report from EU anti-fraud unit OLAF, which reviewed 2009, recalled how fraudsters made millions of Euros from exporting 3,400 tonnes of sugar from the EU to neighbouring non-member state Croatia via the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. The obvious route would be through next-door Slovenia and Hungary, so eyebrows were raised in OLAF when it discovered the Kaliningrad route. Investigations showed exporters had falsely claimed Russia was the final destination, enabling them to claim export refunds not available for exports to Croatia.