Recital 41

(41) The Commission should ensure that the financial interests of the Union are protected effectively. While it is primarily the responsibility of the Member State itself to ensure that the Fund is implemented in compliance with relevant Union and national law, the Commission should be able to receive sufficient assurance from Member States in that regard. To that end, in implementing the Fund, Member States should ensure the functioning of an effective and efficient internal control system and should recover amounts unduly paid or misused. In that regard, Member States should be able to rely on their regular national budget management systems. Member States should collect, record and store in an electronic system, standardised categories of data and information allowing the prevention, detection and correction of serious irregularities in relation to the measures and investments supported by the Fund, namely fraud, corruption and conflicts of interests. The Commission should make available an information and monitoring system, including a single data-mining and risk-scoring tool, to access and analyse that data and information. The Commission should encourage the use of that information and monitoring system with a view to a generalised application by Member States.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.