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Irregularities

According to art. 1.7 of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 irregularity means any infringement of a provision of Community law resulting from an act or omission by an economic operator which has, or would have, the effect of prejudicing the general budget of the Communities by charging an unjustified item of expenditure to the Community budget.

Irregularities

To find out more about irregularities please check the following presentations:

INTERACT Presentation about irregularities

Irregularities, ETC Programmes 2007-2013, Claude Tournier, European Commission, DG Regional Policy

European Commission published the document dealing with errors in the Cohesion Policy, in particular, those found by the Court of Auditors in previous reports concerning the financial years from 2006 through 2009. The document presents background information and an analysis of errors from which public procurement errors make up the most representative group.

The European Commission also published a leaflet regarding errors in the Cohesion Policy, which you can find here.

Here you will find applicable EU legislation on irregularities:

Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities financial interests

and its Corrigendum

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1681/94 of 11 July 1994 concerning irregularities and the recovery of sums wrongly paid in connection with the financing of the structural policies and the organization of an information system in this field

amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2035/2005 of 12 December 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1681/94 concerning irregularities and the recovery of sums wrongly paid in connection with the financing of the structural policies and the organisation of an information system in this field

and its Consolidated version

Here you will also find Guidance note to Certifying Authorities on reporting on withdrawn amounts, recovered amounts, amounts to be recovered and amounts considered irrecoverable, applicable to programming period 2007-2013 and the remainder of the 2000-2006 programming period.

You may also refer to the COCOF Guidance on treatment of errors disclosed in the Annual Control Reports.

Consequences

Guidelines for determining financial corrections to be made to expenditure cofinanced by the structural funds or the cohesion fund for non-compliance with the rules on public procurement

Guidelines on the principles, criteria and indicative scales to be applied by Commission departments in determining financial corrections under Article 39(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999

Source:

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/guidelines/correcti_en.htm

Additional information

Here you will find results of Cross-programme analysis on irregularities, recoveries and decommitment carried out in 2011:

Cross-programme analysis on irregularities, recoveries and decommitment

Here you will find a paper regarding the Findings and Lessons Learned from the European Commission audit (3rd level control) to the UK published by North Sea Region programme.

 

Here you will find additional materials from the event on irregularities that INTERACT organised in Rome on 15 June 2010:

Irregularities and other challenges for Certifying Authorities in European Territorial Cooperation Programmes

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