EUAF – Training, conferences, staff exchanges and studies – 2023

Objectives

• To protect the EU financial interests
• To prevent and combat fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the EU financial interests

Priorities

• Priority 1: To enhance the cooperation between the Union’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies involved in protecting the financial interests of the Union, in particular OLAF, and the cooperation of these institutions, bodies, offices and agencies with national and third country authorities, in particular the customs authorities and other law-enforcement bodies of Member States and third countries
• Priority 2: To develop activities to detect and prevent fraud, in particular risk-analysis practices and methods in both the expenditure of the Union budget as well as fraud that damages the revenues of the Union
• Priority 3: To prevent and fight  against revenue fraud and corruption, with a particular focus on customs-data analysis and new challenges in the field
• Priority 4: To protect the internal market of the Union against counterfeits, tobacco smuggling, and goods dangerous for health, security or the environment
• Priority 5: To prevent the import of illicit products that do not comply with standards laid down in Union environmental and climate legislation, and in Union customs legislation, and that affect the Union budget, to protect the environment, the climate, and the Union budget
• Priority 5: To protect the Union budget if there are breaches of the principles of the rule of law in the Member States

Among financed actions

• Specialised training sessions
• Conferences, workshops and seminars
• Staff exchanges
• Comparative law studies and periodical publications

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: between 12 months and 24 months

Eligibility

• Be a national or regional public authorities
• Be an international organisations
• Be a research and educational institute
• Be a non-profit making entities

• Total budget: 10.55 million euro
• Total budget of the call “Training, conferences, staff exchanges and studies: 900 000 euro