Report on the follow-up of traditional own resources in cases of fraud and irregularities. Report from the Commission.

Abstract

This report together with its annexes presents the state of play in the recovery process for unpaid customs duties (also known as Traditional Own Resources/TOR) in 17 casesof fraud or irregularity. All these cases have been the subject of previous Mutual assistance (MA) communications which concerned several Member States and each had a potential impact on the Community budget of over €1 million. The report outlines the conclusions from the research in a very condensed form – more detail being included in the accompanying six annexes. The report also takes stock of the usefulness and reliability of the current method and proposes an alternative strategy for keeping the Budgetary Authority informed.