Protecting the European Union's financial interests

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Protecting the European Union’s financial interests

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Protecting the European Union’s financial interests

The European Union (EU) has its own budget to finance Europe’s policies. The revenue side is made up of customs duties, value added tax and a share of the gross national income of EU countries. The Union’s financial interests are protected not only by OLAF, but by a battery of anti-fraud regulations.

GENERAL FRAMEWORK

  • Commission Action Plan towards an Integrated Internal Control Framework
  • Hercule programme
  • Criminal-law protection of the Community’s financial interests
  • Overall strategic approach
  • A common legal framework for combating fraud in Community policies
  • Convention on the protection of the European Communities’ financial interests

COMBATING FRAUDULENT PRACTICES IN THE USE OF EU FUNDING

  • Stratégie antifraude de la Commission
    (FR)
  • New approach to fraud prevention
  • Fraud proofing of legislation and of the management of contracts
  • On-the-spot checks and inspections on the premises of economic operators
  • Scrutiny of expenditure under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF)
  • Recovery and information system for money wrongly paid in connection with the financing of the common agricultural policy
  • Community system for the identification of certain beneficiaries of transactions financed by the EAGGF Guarantee Section
  • Action Plan 2004-2005
  • Action plan 2001 – 2003

PROTECTING THE UNION’S OWN RESOURCES

  • Anti-tax fraud measures
  • Administrative cooperation in the field of value added tax (until 31.12.2011)
  • Administrative cooperation in the field of VAT (from 1.1.2012)
  • Mutual administrative assistance in the fight against fraud

CUSTOMS

  • Agreement with the Swiss Confederation
  • Customs Agreement with Japan
  • Agreement with China
  • Agreement with India
  • Agreement with Hong Kong
  • Agreement with Canada
  • Agreement with the Republic of Korea

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