Anti-fraud policies, measures and results - Revenue

AuthorEuropean Anti-Fraud Office (European Commission)
Pages28-34
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th Annual Report on the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests — Fight against fraud 
. Anti-fraud policies, measures
and results — Revenue
.. EU institutions’ anti-fraud measures — revenue
... Mutual administrative assistance
.... Anti-Fraud Information System (AFIS)
AFIS (32) is an umbrella term for a set of anti-fraud IT applications operated by the
European Commission (OLAF) which create contacts with the competent authorities in
the Member States, ensuring timely and secure exchange of fraud-related information
between nati onal and EU competent ad ministrations. The AF IS Portal is a single and com -
mon infrastr ucture for the delivery of t he below-mentioned ser vices to nearly 8 800 reg -
istered end-users in more than 1 900 competent services from Member States, partner
third countr ies, international organisations, Commission departments and ot her EU insti-
tutions. T he AFIS project encompa sses two major areas: (i) mutual a ssistance in customs
matters; an d (ii) irregularities manage ment (covering several expendit ure sectors).
AFIS suppor ts mutual assistance in customs matters with the secure real-time informa-
tion exchang e system VOCU (Virtu al Operations Coordinatio n Unit) used for joint customs
operations, secure web mail (AFIS-Mail), databases like the CIS+ (Customs Information
System) and FIDE (C ustoms Investigation File s Identif‌ication Data base) and analysis tools
like A-TIS (Anti-Fr aud Transit Information System).
The Irregul arity Management Sys tem (IMS) is a secure elect ronic tool which helps Me mber
States in their o bligation to report irreg ularities detected in ag ricultural, struc tural, cohe-
sion and f‌isheries funds, the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), the instru-
ment for f‌inancial support for police cooperation, preventing and combating crime, and
crisis management (ISF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) as
well as pre-acc ession aid. It supports t he management and analysis of ir regularities.
.... Joint customs operations (JCOs)
In addition to it s investigations on cases of revenue fraud, OLAF coordinates large -scale
JCOs involving EU and international operational partners. JCOs are targeted actions of
limited durat ion that aim to combat fraud a nd the smuggling of sensit ive goods in specif‌ic
areas at risk and /or on identif‌ied trade rou tes.
In 2018, OLAF p rovided support in 5 JCOs . The VOCU module of the AF IS was used for the
secure excha nge of information in four of the se JCOs. In addition to t he necessary supp ort
for the relevant c ountries to conduct coor dinated actions by means of OL AF’s permanent
technical in frastructure, IT an d communications tools, O LAF also provides st rategic anal-
ysis, administra tive and f‌inancial suppor t.
These operat ions: (i) help to improve the ef‌fectiveness of customs service s in conducting
targeted c hecks at European level; (ii) id entify where the risks lie o n specif‌ic trade routes ;
(iii) protect the public and legitimate businesses by preventing illegal products from en-
tering the EU ; and (iv) safeguard EU public f‌ina nces.
Figure 4 presen ts a summary of these oper ations.
() Its legal basis is Re gulation /  as amended by Re gulation  /.

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