| Due
to Covid health crisis in Spain, this event will take place
online.
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Objective
Directive (EU) 2017/1371, also known as
the “PIF Directive”, aims at strengthening administrative and criminal
law procedures to fight fraud against the European Union’s financial
interests. Its objective is to deter fraudsters, improve the prosecution
and sanctioning of crimes against the EU budget and facilitate the
recovery of misused EU funds, thereby increasing the protection of EU
taxpayers’ money.
In this context, OLAF has key tasks in its
investigative and policy mission. Today, however, there are other
measures at EU and national level to support the new antifraud landscape
(especially since the establishment of the EPPO). Cooperation
horizontally between EU bodies involved in the protection of the Union's
financial interests (e.g. OLAF, EPPO, Eurojust, Europol) and vertically
with national authorities becomes vital.
The overall aim of this event is to show from a practical
perspective how close cooperation, information exchange and
complementary tasks can guarantee a more effective fight against all
types of fraud affecting the EU financial interests.
Key topics
- Presentation of the key features of the
2017 PIF Directive
- An overview of the role and powers of
EU bodies engaged in preventing and fighting frauds affecting the EU
financial interests
- A view from the coalface: work carried
out at local level by national authorities
- Case studies/lessons (to be)
learnt
- A future EU anti-fraud landscape and
possible synergies among the bodies active in fighting frauds affecting
the EU financial interests
Who should
attend?
Judges, prosecutors, government officials, lawyers in
private practice and other stakeholders.
The conference will be attended by the presidents and members of the
national associations for the protection of the financial interests of
the European Union.
Interactive
online seminar
The online seminar will
be hosted on ERA’s own online platform. You will be able to interact
immediately and directly with our top-level speakers and other
participants. We will make the most of the technical tools available to
deliver an intensive, interactive experience. As the platform is hosted
on our own server, the highest security settings will be applied to
ensure that you can participate safely in this high-quality online
conference.