Description
The Self-Assessment Group's task is to use the fraud risk self-assessment tool proposed by the European Commission, and to formulate a specific methodology for the proper conduct of the fraud risk self-assessment of the ESF+ 2021-2027 Programme, which has been included in the Manual of Procedures of the Managing Authority of the ESF+ 2021-2027 PR.
Among the measures to prevent and combat fraud affecting the financial interests of the Union, according to Article 125(4)(c) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, available to Member States is the risk assessment tool Arachne
provided by the European Commission, in its management review processes.
ARACHNE is an IT tool developed by the European Commission to support managing authorities in their controls of European funds. The Arachne system is fed by external data sources, such as global databases (Orbis and World compliance), and by internal data sources, such as information from the individual MAs of the different Member States holding Programmes.
Through this tool, on the basis of a set of risk indicators, projects, beneficiaries (those who are responsible for implementing and/or initiating operations), contracts and contractors that may be subject to the risk of fraud, conflict of interest and irregularities are identified.
The elaborations provided by the Arachne system, aimed at calculating the risk, will be subject to data protection constraints and will not be published either by the Managing Authority or by the European Commission Services.
Below is a link to the site set up by the European Commission Services to explain the process and purpose of the data analysis performed by ARACHNE.