EU Auditors to examine Commission’s fraud controls
The European Court of Auditors is to conduct an audit of how the European Commission manages the risk of fraud in EU spending. The audit will focus on fraud prevention and fraud response and will include contributions from NGOs, academics and prosecutors, as well as Europol and Eurojust.
In a 2015 Eurobarometer survey on perceptions of fraud and corruption affecting the EU budget, 71% of respondents thought that fraud occurred “rather frequently” and 60% felt that corruption was “significant in the EU institutions”.
This represents a significant increase compared with the 2008 flash Eurobarometer, when 54% thought fraud happened rather frequently and 44% felt that corruption occurred in EU institutions.
Mr Juhan Parts, the Member of the European Court of Auditors responsible for the audit, said, “These figures show how seriously the problem of fraud is taken by our citizens. We cannot simply explain it away by saying they don’t understand. The only solution is an EU fraud management system which effectively prevents, detects, investigates and punishes fraudulent activity.”
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