Investigation and surveillance equipment and methods

Strengthening and improvement of beneficiaries’ investigative and operational capacity, as measured, for example, by the number of successful operations carried out with the purchased products in support of investigations into activities detrimental to the Union’s financial interests, arrests made, convictions, seizures, confiscations, recoveries, prevented losses to the national and Union budgets, and fraud schemes uncovered.

The purchase and maintenance of investigation and surveillance equipment and methods used by beneficiaries in the fight against irregularities, fraud and corruption detrimental to the Union’s financial interests. The purchase of adapted transport equipment, IT hard- and soft-ware and audio-visual equipment may be included, provided an applicant clearly demonstrates that the purchase contributes to the achievement of the first specific objective of the UAFP. Specialised training to enable staff to operate these tools has to be planned as part of the action.