Cooperation with the Member States
Author | European Anti-Fraud Office (European Commission) |
Pages | 43-43 |
43
th Annual Report on the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests — Fight against fraud 2018
. Cooperation with
the Member States
The Advisor y Committee for Coordinatio n of Fraud Prevention (COCOLA F) brings together
Commission (OLAF) and Member State experts. It provides a forum for discussing the
main developments in the fight against fraud and the preparation of this report, as re-
quired by Article 325(5) TFEU. Its work is structured around four working groups and a
plenary sess ion (see Figure 11).
The reporting and analysis subgroup of COCOLAF provided the ideal forum for discuss-
ing and fine-tuning the analyses presented in the SWD on the ‘statistical evaluation of
irregularities’.
Within the fraud prevention subgroup work was started to develop a methodology for
country profiles describing the anti-fraud systems of the Member States. This tool will
continue to be d eveloped over the next years .
FIGURE : COCOL AF STRUCTURE AND S UBGROUPS
The anti-fraud coordination services (AFCOS) meet annually under the chairmanship of
OLAF. In 2018, the meeting took place on 16 October. OLAF’s investigative cooperation
with AFCOS — in particular during on-the-spot checks — and information exchange
were discussed . Other topics on the agen da included confidentia lity of OLAF final rep orts,
overarching cooperation between the national AFCOS and the Hercule annual work pro-
gramme for 2019.
The OLAF AntiFraud Communicators’ Network (OAFCN) brings together communication
officers and spokespersons from OLAF’s operational partners in the Member States. In
2018, OLAF or ganised a joint press conference w ith Swedish customs on the fi ght against
counterfeit ing in industrial goods an d did a guest posting exercise o n Twitter with L atvian
AFCOS to prese nt the 2nd edition of their suc cessful campaign encour aging people to say
no to fraud.
Member States and the Commission exchanged views on anti-fraud matters in meet-
ings of the Council’s Working Party on Combating Fraud (GAF) under the Bulgarian and
Austrian Presidencies.
Plenary
Reporting and analysis
of fraudulent and
other irregularities
Fraud prevention
OLAF anti-fraud
communicators'
network (OAFCN)
Anti-fraud
coordination services
meeting
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