The anti-fraud measures in the Recovery and Resilience facility and in national Recovery and Resilience Plans

This paper will analyse the most important anti-fraud measures contained in the RRF Regulation and in NRRPs. Firstly, it will examine the main questions on the protection of the EU’s financial interests posed by the RRF Regulation. This evaluation will be conducted with regards to both the specific budgetary measures and all spending areas. The purpose is to evaluate whether, and to what extent, the safeguarding of the EU’s financial interests in the NGEU is carried out with different tools in comparison to the other Union funds. Secondly, it will identify the level playing field of the protection of the EU’s financial interest resulting from the NRRPs. It will examine the dimensions of this level playing field and determine to what extent, and with what regulatory results, it has been implemented in these regards by the Member States. Thirdly, it will explain the different roles of OLAF and the EPPO in the protection of EU’ financial interests under the RRF and NRRPs and the expected results of their interconnection.