Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

F. Fraud
As a part of the project’s goals, a new definition for fraud was introduced and
tested. Also, it was checked whether data for fraud offences were available in the
countries participating in the project.
1. First steps and development of draft definitions and
questions
At the beginning the TRANSCRIME report on corruption, fraud, illicit trafficking,
counterfeiting and child sexual exploitation and pornography based on 22 EU
countries was presented to the group. 38 TRANSCRIME created categories based
on the data they received from the countries. The group decided that this would
be a good starting point for the development of new offence definitions regarding
the offences of fraud and corruption which were decided to be included in the
AGIS study.
38 Study to assess the scope of and collect available statistics and meta-data on five crime types and
propose harmonized definitions and collection procedures for the types of crime for the EU
member states and the acceding countries, final report, 8 August 2006, financed by the European
Commission – DG JLS (Contract No. DG.JLS/D2/2005/04).