The annual activity report of the Fight Against Fraud Department – DLAF

The annual activity report of the Fight Against Fraud Department – DLAF, published today, summarises DLAF's achievements in 2013.

The Fight Against Fraud Department, DLAF, assures the protection of the European Union’s financial interests in Romania. The Department has the competency for control of EU funds, being the national coordinator of the anti-fraud fight.

By its results from 2013, described in the present report, DLAF confirmed its efficiency and role of national fight against fraud coordinator, as follows:

• maintained its role of combating frauds, indicated by a number, similar to that of 2012, of control actions which formed the main target of the institution,
• maintained its control policy oriented to the verification of all types of European funds,
• maintained the manner of cooperation with NAD (the number of notifications sent by NAD and the number of judicial follow-ups of the control actions to NAD are similar to those from 2012),
• maintained the manner of cooperation with the management authorities, by the number of notifications transmitted by these, similar to that of 2012,
• increased the efficiency of the control teams: in 2013 were finalized 27% more control actions than in 2012 and 100% more control actions than in 2011,
• continued the cooperation with OLAF, both by DLAF‟s involvement in its legislative initiatives or by the participation to all the reunions organized by OLAF for the Member States and by operational cooperation, technical assistance or irregularity reporting activities.

From the point of view of the financial resources, in 2013, DLAF carried out its activity according to the principle of sound financial management and, at the end of the year, registered savings of 14% from the budget allocated at the beginning of the year.

From the point of view of the human resources, in 2013, the occupation degree of DLAF's personnel scheme was 53%, the staff of the Department being overloaded from the point of view of the volume of the activity performed.

"I convey a message of gratitude for the way DLAF and the other judicial and prosecution bodies in Romania are cooperating very well with us. Actually, there is a policy of subsidiarity principle where more and more is of a national level the responsibility to properly address this kind of crimes we intervene for investigation mainly when the dimension of the crimes is transnational or when the national authorities request our assistance or our cooperation. In any case, cooperation, in particular, with DLAF is excellent", said OLAF's Director-General, Giovanni Kessler.

The report can be downloaded from DLAF's website