Activities

FCIS discloses and investigates criminal acts related to the illegal receipt and use of the financial support from the funds of the European Union and foreign countries. FCIS also implements prevention measures against criminal acts and other violations related to the receipt and use of the financial support.

Board of the Illegal Support Prevention and Investigation is the main unit of FCIS responsible for these activities. Within the scope of its competence, the unit implements the following:

• reveals and investigates criminal acts related to the receipt and use of financial support from the European Union structural funds;

• organizes meetings for sharing methodical and practical assistance with the competitive institutions responsible for the disclosure of fraud related with the financial support from the European Union structural funds;

• provides results of the examination of the reports on the suspected fraud submitted by the managing authorities for the European Union structural funds;

• participates in the process of drafting legislation relating to the financial support from the European Union structural funds;

• participates in the activities of working groups on the detection, investigation, elimination and prevention of suspected criminal acts related with the financial support from the European Union structural funds.   

The Board of the Illegal Support Prevention and Investigation seeks to strengthen competences of the management and control system institutions and actively shares information about the trends in criminal acts and newly emerging fraudulent mechanisms as well as offers preventive measures.

FCIS actively participates in the European Union financial support management and control system activities. The Board of the Illegal Support Prevention and Investigation organizes meetings of the Working Group of Irregularity Officers. These meetings provide the possibility for exchanging the best practices, deal with the occurring issues and solve emerging problems.

Priorities

• Giving great attention to the transparency of application of the management procedures.

• Seeking for the elimination of dishonestly competing entities.

• Attempting to ensure that the financial support is used only for achieving the project objectives.