Report an irregularity or suspicion of fraud

REPORTING ON IRREGULARITY AND SUSPICION OF FRAUD IN CONNECTION WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IPARD PROGRAMME

In the Law on ratification of the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement between the European Commission and Montenegro on the arrangements for implementation of Union financial assistance to Montenegro under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (Official Gazette of Montenegro - International agreements, No. 6/2022), article 51, paragraph 5, it is prescribed that:

• Irregularity means any infringement of a provision of applicable rules and contracts resulting from an act or an omission by an economic operator or the IPA III beneficiary, which has, or would have, the effect of prejudicing the general budget of the Union by charging an unjustified item of expenditure to the general budget;
• Fraud means any intentional act or omission relating to:
• the use or presentation of false, incorrect or incomplete statements or documents, which has as its effect the misappropriation or wrongful retention of funds from the general budget of the Union or budgets managed by, or on behalf of, the European Union;
• non-disclosure of information in violation of a specific obligation with the same effect; or
• the misapplication of such funds for purposes other than those for which they were originally granted;
• Suspected fraud means an irregularity giving rise to the initiation of administrative or judicial proceedings at national level in order to establish the presence of intentional behaviour, in particular fraud, as referred to above.

The Directorate for Payments has provided a special e-mail address:

prijava.nepravilnosti@mpsv.gov.me 

through which irregularities and suspicions about fraud about the implementation of the IPARD programme can be reported.

Irregularities and suspicions of fraud may also be reported:

• by sending the notice by mail, to the address of the Directorate for Payments, Moskovska 101, 81000 Podgorica - with the mark: NOTICE OF IRREGULARITY - DO NOT OPEN;
• directly, to the Irregularity Officer, at the premises of the Directorate for Payments, Moskovska 101, Podgorica;
• by telephone on the number: +382 20 672 007;
• through the following link of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on:
• https://fns.olaf.europa.eu

In the notice, it is desirable to provide as precise and detailed information as possible, and, if possible, to provide the available documentation.

Reporting on irregularities and suspicions of fraud can be done by sending the name and surname of sender or anonymously.

The identity of the person reporting the irregularity or suspicion of fraud is kept secret.