The PIF Report of the European Commission has been published

Тhe European Commission's annual report on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests ('PIF Report') has been published. The following working documents are attached to the Report: “Implemention of Article 325 TFEU by the Member States in 2015”, “Follow-up of recommendations to the Commission report on the protection of the EU's financial interests - fight against fraud, 2014”, “Methodology regarding the statistical evaluation of reported irregularities for 2015”, “Statistical evaluation of irregularities reported for 2015 Own Resources, Natural Resources, Cohesion Policy, Pre-accession and Direct Expenditure”, “Annual overview with information on the results of the Hercule III Programme in 2015”, “Implementation of the Commission Anti-Fraud Stategy (CAFS)”.

In 2015, Member States have improved their fraud detection and prevention capacities, according to the 'PIF Report'. The report shows that cooperation between Member States and with the Commission has worked well, in particular on the revenue side, where large-scale Joint Customs Operations have averted significant losses to the EU and national budgets. The report also sets out the state of play of significant initiatives taken by the Commission in 2015 to counter fraud affecting the EU budget.

For more details you can find the report and its annexes on the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/anti-fraud/about-us/reports/communities-reports_en