A variety of EU funds has long been available to improve the development of the EU.
In particular, the present action will aim to discuss how to prevent frauds in EU funds managed by pre-accession countries with the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) and by East neighbourhood countries with the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI). Both instruments are included in the EU’s financial interests accounting for IPA: €11,699 million and ENI: €15,433 million for 2014-2020. Therefore, it is of great importance the way how the countries absorb these funds. Over the years, a number of problems have been encountered in managing such funds linked to legal and bureaucratic obstacles that could delay the implementation of projects.
Considering this, we are going to organise a 1 day conference in Belgrade (Serbia) to discuss the EU policy and legislative developments in the field of fight against fraud and Audit Strategies for Fraud Detection in the framework of IPA funded projects. This event will see the participation of AFCOS and Managing Authorities from Italy, Belgium, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey so that they can discuss, share and transmit their experience and knowledge in EU funds management considering the different tools/funds they can manage.