Brussels, 18/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Convention relating to the protection of the European Communities' financial interests took effect on 17 October. It took 7 years, since its adoption by the Council on 26 July 1995, for all Member states to ratify this Convention, by which all Member states must define in a uniform manner, as criminal infringement, all fraud, active or passive corruption, harming the financial interests of the European Communities. Italy was the last Member state to...