European Community Introduces New Enforcement Mechanisms to Fight Increasing Fraud against the Community

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Saturday, May 1, 1993

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Volume:

9

Issue:

5

206

Abstract:

As fraud against the Community Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the European Community generally is dramatically rising, the EC is introducing new legal forms of cooperation and new technology. On August 26, 1993, the EC released a report showing that reported fraud in the EC almost doubled in 1992. The report states that one in three cases concerning abuse of the EC’s farm export guarantee system happened in Italy…[more]