Official guidelines and material - Anti-Fraud Knowledge Centre

Official guidelines and material - Anti-Fraud Knowledge Centre

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Double Funding
EU
2025

Double funding in EU funded projects – The experience of Member States

Conflicts of Interests
EU
2021

Guidance on the avoidance and management of conflicts of interest under the Financial Regulation

Conflicts of Interests
EU
2025

Best Practices on Conflicts of Interests

AFCOS
EU
2013

Guidance note on main tasks and responsibilities of an Anti-Fraud Co-ordination Service (AFCOS)

AFCOS
EU

Anti-Fraud Strategies
EU
2011

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE, AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS AND THE COURT OF AUDITORS ON THE COMMISSION ANTI-FRAUD STRATEGY

Anti-Fraud Strategies
EU
2014

Guidelines for national anti-fraud strategies for European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)

Anti-Fraud Strategies
EU
2015

Practical steps towards the drafting of a National Anti-Fraud Strategy

Anti-Fraud Strategies
EU
2015

Checklist NAFS Preparatory Phase

Anti-Fraud Strategies
EU
2016

Guidelines on National Anti-Fraud Strategies

Anti-Fraud Strategies
EU
2019

JOINT ANTI-FRAUD STRATEGY FOR SHARED & INDIRECT MANAGEMENT 2020-2025 DG Regio – DG EMPL – DG Mare

ARACHNE
EU
2017

Arachne CHARTER FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARACHNE RISK SCORING TOOL IN THE MANAGEMENT VERIFICATIONS

ARACHNE
EU
2016

Arachne Be distinctive

Audit
EU
2014

Guidance for Member States on Audit Strategy (Programming period 2014-2020)

Audit
EU
2014

Guidance for Member States on the Annual Control Report and Audit Opinion to be reported by audit authorities and on the treatment of errors detected by audit authorities in view of establishing and reporting reliable total residual error rates (Programmi

Civil Society
UNCAC
2013

Civil Society Guide UNCAC and the private sector

Civil Society
UNCAC
2020

Values education for public integrity What works and what doesn’t

Civil Society
OECD
2017

OECD RECOMMENDATION OF THE COUNCIL ON PUBLIC INTEGRITY

Codes of conduct
UN
1997

International Code of Conduct for Public Officials

Codes of conduct
Council of Europe
2000

Recommendation No. R (2000) 10 of the Committee of Ministers to Member states on codes of conduct for public officials

Codes of conduct
Council of Europe
2000

Recommendation No. R (2000) 10 on codes of conduct for public officials, including a Model code of conduct for public officials (in appendix) - Explanatory Memorandum

Conflicts of Interest
EU
2013

Identifying conflicts of interests in public procurement procedures for structural actions A practical guide for managers

Conflicts of Interest
EU
2015

Identifying conflicts of interests in the Agricultural Sector A practical guide for funds managers

Conflicts of Interest
OECD
2003

Recommendation of the Council on OECD Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service

Controls
OECD
2010

Good Practice Guidance on Internal Controls, Ethics, and Compliance

Controls
EU
2014

Fraud Risk Assessment and Effective and Proportionate Anti-Fraud Measures - Annex 2: Recommended mitigating controls

Controls
EU
2014

Guidance for the Commission and Member States on a common methodology for the assessment of management and control systems in the Member States

Detection
EU
2013

Detection of forged documents in the field of structural actions A practical guide for managing authorities

Detection
EU
2009

Information Note on Fraud Indicators for ERDF, ESF and CF

Detection
EU
2017

Fraud in Public Procurement A collection of Red Flags and Best Practices

European Funds
EU
2014

Guidance for Member States on Management verifications (Programming period 2014-2020)

Fraud and Corruption
OECD
2009

OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

Fraud and Corruption
Transparency International
2013

BUSINESS PRINCIPLES FOR COUNTERING BRIBERY A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER INITIATIVE LED BY TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL

Fraud and Corruption
UNCAC
2014

Using the UN Convention against Corruption to advance anti-corruption efforts: A guide

Fraud and Corruption
Transparency International
2017

10 ANTI-CORRUPTION PRINCIPLES FOR STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES A multi-stakeholder initiative of Transparency International GUIDANCE FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION BEST PRACTICE

Fraud and Corruption
UNCAC
2019

UNCAC in a nutshell 2019 A quick guide to the United Nations Convention against Corruption for donor agency and embassy staff

Policies
UN
2003

United Nations Guide on Anti-Corruption Policies

Fraud and Corruption
Council of Europe
1996

Program of action against corruption

Fraud and Corruption
OECD
2009

OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

Fraud Risk Assessment
EU
2014

Fraud Risk Assessment and Effective and Proportionate Anti-Fraud Measures

Fraud Risk Assessment
EU
2014

Fraud Risk Assessment and Effective and Proportionate Anti-Fraud Measures - Annex 1: Assessment of exposure to specific fraud risks - selection of applicants by Managing Authorities

Fraud Risk Assessment
EU
2014

Fraud Risk Assessment and Effective and Proportionate Anti-Fraud Measures - Annex 1: HOW TO USE THE SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL

Policies
EU
2014

Fraud Risk Assessment and Effective and Proportionate Anti-Fraud Measures - Annex 3: ANTI-FRAUD POLICY TEMPLATE

Fraud Risk Assessment
EU
2014

Fraud Risk Assessment and Effective and Proportionate Anti-Fraud Measures - Annex 4: Verification of the Managing Authority’s compliance with article 125.4 c) regarding Fraud risk assessment and effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures for 2014-202

Fraud Risk Assessment
OECD
2016

OECD Recommendation of the Council for Development Co-operation Actors on Managing Risks of Corruption

GRECO
GRECO
2018

Guidelines for GRECO Evaluation Teams (GETs)

Integrity Pacts
Transparency International
2013

Integrity Pacts in Public Procurement An implementation guide

Integrity Pacts
Transparency International
2018

MODEL MONITORING AGREEMENT AND INTEGRITY PACT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE An implementation guide for civil society organizations

Integrity Pacts
Transparency International
2016

INTEGRITY PACTS: A HOW-TO GUIDE FROM PRACTITIONERS

Integrity Pacts
Transparency International
2016

The Case for Integrity Pacts - Engaging civil society for better public procurement outcomes

Integrity Pacts
Transparency International
2017

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INTEGRITY PACTS - How citizen monitoring benefits you

OLAF
EU
2013

Guidelines on Investigation Procedures for OLAF Staff

Public procurement
EU
2019

Commission Decision of 14.5.2019 laying down the guidelines for determining financial corrections to be made to expenditure financed by the Union for non - compliance with the applicable rules on public procurement

Public procurement
EU
2018

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT GUIDANCE FOR PRACTITIONERS on avoiding the most common errors in projects funded by the European Structural and Investment Funds

Public Procurement
Council of Europe
2017

Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the legal regulation of lobbying activities in the context of public decision making

Public procurement
OECD
2012

OECD Recommendation on Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement

Public procurement
OECD
2009

Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement

Public procurement
OECD
2016

Fighting bid rigging in public procurement Report on implementing the OECD Recommendation

Public procurement
OECD
2015

OECD RECOMMENDATION OF THE COUNCIL ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Whistleblowing
Transparency International
2018

A best practice guide for whistleblowing legislation

Whistleblowing
Council of Europe
2014

Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)7 on the Protection of Whistleblowers, adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 30 April 2014 and explanatory memorandum