Press Release: Anti-Fraud: New anti-fraud programmes adopted to protect EU financial interests until 2020

EU Anti-Fraud policy makes a substantial contribution to protecting the financial interests of the EU and Member States' budgets every year. It ensures that EU and national budgets are well protected, that the money is spent for its intended purposes and reaches its proper beneficiaries.

In order to continue its work in this field, the European Commission has adopted two proposals for the Hercule III and Pericles 2020 programmes. With a budget of 110 million euro and 7.7 million euro respectively, these programmes will run for seven years from January 2014.

European Commission: Memo/11/921: Questions and Answers: Commission adoption of Hercule III and Pericles 2020 programmes http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/921&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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