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Explore the statistical evaluation of irregularities in the 2008 PIF report, including trends, types, and impact of reported irregularities. Learn about recovery rates and conclusions for various funds and objectives. Discover important links and useful information.
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Irregularities statistics from draft 280 Annual Fight Against Fraud Report for 2008Maria NTZIOUNI-DOUMASOLAF “Train the trainers” European Commission seminar for managing and certifying authorities 9 June 2009
CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION Statistical evaluation of irregularities for the PIF report • Useful links • Purpose • Methodology • Content
USEFUL LINKS • Main page • http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/reports/anti-fraud_en.html • Main Report • http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/reports/commission/2007/en.pdf • First Annex • http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/reports/commission/2007/inventaire_en.pdf • Statistical Annex • http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/reports/commission/2007/statistics_en.pdf
PURPOSE OF THE REPORT • Art. 280§5 TEC • “The Commission, in cooperation with Member States, shall each year submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a report on the measures taken for the implementation of this Article.” • Measures adopted by the MS • Measures adopted by the EC • Results (Reported Irregularities) • Information to the public – European taxpayers
STRUCTURE OF THE ANNEX • Introduction – Key facts • Two parts: • Revenues (1 chapter: TOR); • Expenditure (5 chapters: Agriculture, EFF, SF, PA, DE) • SF chapter is divided in five parts: • Reporting discipline • General trends (amounts involved, impact on budget, method of detection, type of irregularity, suspected frauds) • Specific analysis (Programming period 2000-2006) • Recovery • Conclusions • Annexes
DEFINITIONS irregular amounts payments (from the EC to MS) • Irregularity rate = • Fraud rate = irregular amounts (linked to suspicions of fraud) payments (from the EC to MS)
IRREGULARITIES REPORTED BY MS 1998-2008 • N° of irregularities: +7% • Irregular financial amounts: -27%
IRREGULARITIES BY FUND TREND BY FUND 1998-2008 YEAR 2008
Trend still increasing for reported irregularities; decrease for amounts • Irregularity rate still increasing
SITUATION BY FUND • ERDF has the highest number of irregularities, irregular amounts and irregularity rate • ESF is second
SITUATION BY OBJECTIVE • Objective 2 programmes have the highest irregularity rate though the by number of irregularities it is only third after Obj. 1 and 3 • Objective 1 irregular amounts’ share is in balance with payments’ share (72% each)
ESTIMATED IMPACT OF SUSPECTED FRAUDS BY FUND AND OBJECTIVE • Objective 1 and ERDF financed programmes have the highest “fraud” rates (0.22% and 0.21% respectively) • Fraud rate is calculated on the payments not on the audited expenditure
CONCLUSIONS (1) • Improved compliance of MS thanks to the efforts from OLAF and the EC also in view of the introduction of the new reporting system IMS • ERDF is the fund with the highest number of irregularities and irregular amounts (increasing trend) • Cases of suspected fraud present a decreasing trend
CONCLUSIONS (2) • Programming period 2000-2006: • Irregularity rate (IR) increasing • Objective 2 programmes have highest IR • Objective 1 programmes have highest fraud rate (FR) • ERDF has highest IR and FR • 25% of the amounts are recovered within few months following detection • Further 25% in the following 5-6 years • Irregularities linked to the Cohesion Fund are still of very low quality to allow any real conclusion to be drawn