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EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS

26 April 2013

Presentation by Edward FENNESSY

Director, European Court of Auditors

The error rate in Rural Development

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The error rate in Rural Development

The Court’s methodology

• a random sample of underlying transactions
• there is no “error rate” for RD
• it is a MLE
• relating also to other policy areas
• combined with system audits

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The error rate in Rural Development

Findings in recent years show:

• errors are widespread:
• > 50 % of all transactions audited
• and in all Member States and RD measures
• there is a large number of different types of

error

• relatively more errors in non-area-related

measures

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Main cause for the errors detected:

the project does not respect eligibility requirements:

• farmer does not respect AE commitments
• enterprise is not an SME
• non respect of procurement rules

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Recommendations Member States carry out checks in a more rigorous manner

• in most cases MS authorities had

the information to detect and correct the error

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Recommendations

In some cases, there is scope to simplify the rules and conditions

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Thank you for your attention.

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