Data analytics technologies and data purchases

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 commercial specialised databases, data analysis platforms capable of running analysis in big data environments, risk and predictive analysis and data mining tools, as well as systems supported by artificial intelligence used in the fight against irregularities, fraudulent activities and corruption, detrimental to the Union’s financial interests. These purchases include capacity building in Member States for developing, using and sharing databases and business intelligence tools. These purchases may also enable the acquisition of integrated packages, comprising for example hardware and software, access and training, including training for the ‘Tobacco Tracking & Tracing’ database.