The Cyprus Rural Payments Agency (CFCA) participated in the Conference which took place in Prague, Czech Republic on 24-25 November 2022 and was organised by OLAF in cooperation with the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). The Conference on Prevent - Detect - Investigate, New challenges in fighting expenditure fraud and irregularities was attended by representatives from all EU Member States as well as from relevant EU institutions.
The Conference consisted of three thematic sections: Prevention, Detection and Fraud Investigation, concerning all Structural Funds under shared management (including the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)).
In relation to fraud prevention, presentations were made on prevention tools by the OECD, the design of the national anti-fraud strategy by the national AFCOS of France and Spain, and anti-fraud measures under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) by the Estonian Ministry of Finance.
Good fraud detection practices by AFCOS in Romania, the difficulties of fraud detection under shared management and experiences with risk scoring by the European Commission, the redesign of controls by Portugal, the tools and role of data and intelligence analysis by OLAF, and the role of the European Court of Auditors in the fight against fraud and irregularities were presented.
Presentations were also made by Portugal on the importance of using artificial intelligence in the context of audit work, by Italy on capacity and preparedness for cross-border control, by the European Public Prosecutor's Office on criminal investigations, and by Slovakia, Greece and Finland on criminal audit preparedness.
(OP/IC)
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