29th annual report on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests – Fight against fraud – 2017

Further information:

The EU and the Member States share responsibility for protecting the EU’s financial interests and fighting fraud. Member State authorities manage approximately 74% of EU expenditure and collect traditional own resources (TOR). The Commission oversees both these areas, sets standards and verifies compliance. To protect the EU’s financial interests effectively, the Commission and the Member States have to work closely together.

Each year the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, submits a report to the European Parliament and the Council on measures taken to counter fraud and other illegal activities affecting the EU’s financial interests.

This report assesses this cooperation with a view to improving it; to this end, it:
- provides a summary of measures taken at EU and Member State level to counter fraud;
- includes an analysis of national and European bodies’ main achievements in detecting fraud and irregularities relating to EU expenditure and revenue. This is based in particular on detected irregularities and fraud reported by the Member States in compliance with sectoral regulations.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)381: Annual overview with information on the results of the Hercule III Programme in 2017 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:381:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)382: Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES) - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:382:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)383: Follow-up on recommendations to the Commission report on the protection of the EU’s financial interests - Fight against fraud - 2016 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:383:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)384: Implementation of Article 325 TFEU by the Member States in 2017 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:384:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)385: Implementation of article 43b of Regulation 515/97 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:385:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)386: Statistical evaluation of irregularities reported for 2017: own resources, agriculture, cohesion and fisheries policies, pre-accession and direct expenditure https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:386:FIN

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