EU Department: Error rate for expenses at alarming level!

EU Department: Error rate for expenses at alarming level!

In today's EU Committee of the Federal Council, the focus was on the exchange with Helga Berger, the Austrian representative in the European Court of Auditors (Eurh). This presented the results of the recent annual report of the EURH, in which the examination of the EU budget plan for 2023 was discussed. What was striking was the increase in the error rate for EU expenses, which rose from 4.2% in 2022 to 5.6%, which has been the highest rate since 2014. This refers to 750 transactions examined, which have been selected evenly to take into account each payment. Although no significant defects were found in the income, Berger pointed out that in 20 cases "fraud -relevant facts" were revealed that had to be forwarded to the European Office for Combat (OLAF), such as

As part of the annual examination of the EURH, it was also found that Austria takes a pioneering role in the area of ​​biological agriculture, with the proportion of ecologically managed areas exceeding the EU goals. Despite this positive news, critics refer to a reduction in organic farms in Austria and the increased requirements for farms, which underlines the need for additional support measures.