Technical Assistance

Strengthening and improving beneficiaries’ investigative and operational capacity, as measured, for example, by the number of successful operations carried out with the purchased products to support investigations into activities detrimental to the financial interests of the Union. This includes the number of arrests, convictions, seizures, confiscations, recoveries, prevented losses to national and Union budgets and fraud schemes uncovered.

The Commission will support the purchase and maintenance of digital forensic equipment and software, mobile forensic tools and computer forensic collaborative systems used to prevent and fight against irregularities (and fraudulent irregularities in particular), fraud and corruption detrimental to the financial interests of the EU.

Cross-border cooperation enabling the exchange of information and best practice, in particular at operational level, is strongly encouraged. Projects may also include updates of existing software systems and associated training. Specialised training to enable staff to operate these tools must be included as part of the action.