Protection of the EU's finacial interests - combating fraud - annual report 2018

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As in previous years, the Committee on Budgetary Control decided to draw up an own-initiative report on ‘ Protection of the European Union's financial interests - combating fraud - annual report 2018‘ (the PIF Report).

On 17 Oct 2019, Commissioner Oettinger presented the 30th annual report 2018 from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council (under Article 325 of the TFEU) on the Protection of the European Union's financial interests (COM(2019)0444), the last one adopted under the Juncker Commission.
The purpose of this report is both to assess to what extent the EU funds or revenue of the EU budget are at risk of misuse due to fraudulent or non-fraudulent irregularities and to describe the actions taken to address the issue.

The draft report was sent to Members on 6 February 2020. The deadline for tabling amendments was on 3 March when 151 amendments were tabled. The final report was voted in CONT on 7 May 2020 and adopted in Plenary on 10 July 2020.