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“Train the trainers”

Irregularities statistics from draft 280 Annual Fight Against Fraud Report for 2008 Maria NTZIOUNI-DOUMAS OLAF. “Train the trainers” European Commission seminar for managing and certifying authorities 9 June 2009. CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION.

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“Train the trainers”

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  1. 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

  2. CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION Statistical evaluation of irregularities for the PIF report • Useful links • Purpose • Methodology • Content

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. REPORTING DISCIPLINE

  8. GENERAL TRENDS

  9. IRREGULARITIES REPORTED BY MS 1998-2008 • N° of irregularities: +7% • Irregular financial amounts: -27%

  10. IRREGULARITIES BY FUND TREND BY FUND 1998-2008 YEAR 2008

  11. IRREGULARITIES BY MS: 2007-2008

  12. DETECTION METHODS AND TYPES OF IRREGULARITY

  13. CASES OF SUSPECTED FRAUD

  14. SPECIFIC ANALYSIS: PP2000-2006

  15. Trend still increasing for reported irregularities; decrease for amounts • Irregularity rate still increasing

  16. SITUATION BY FUND • ERDF has the highest number of irregularities, irregular amounts and irregularity rate • ESF is second

  17. 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)

  18. 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

  19. RECOVERY RATE

  20. COHESION FUND

  21. 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

  22. 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

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