Programmi comunitari 2014 2020_Presentation by Claudia Salvi
Capaci int
1. CAPACI
Creation of Automated Procedures Against Criminal
Infiltration in Public Contracts
HOME/2010/ISEC/FP/C2/400001456
2. Presentation overview
CAPACI Project outline
EU DG Home Affairs Financing overview
First results and upcoming tasks
Extent of CAPACI – Monitored public works
Project details
EU added value
3. EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL JUSTICE , FREEDOM AND SECURITY
Directorate F: Security
Unit F4: Financial support - Security
SPECIFIC PROGRAMME
"Prevention of and Fight against Crime 2010"
Call restricted to framework partners
4. What is CAPACI?
It is a project pursuing an improved protection of the market of
public contracts by enhancing transparency and exploiting the
informative potential of financial flows recorded on bank
accounts of all businesses (general contractor, subcontractors,
suppliers) involved in the implementation of public works, in
order to:
- acquire an increased knowledge of the use of public resources;
- provide support to investigations aimed at preventing criminal
infiltration in public contracts.
5. CAPACI Project – Administrative details
Funded by European Commission (DG Home Affairs)
under specific programme “Prevention of and fight
against crime 2010”
Project cost: 650,000 € (approx.)
EU contribution: 435,000 € (approx.)
Co-funding rate: 66.80%
Project duration: 24 months starting from 02/09/2011
6. Project partners
Ministry
Applicant
of Interior
Project Leader
DIPE
Formez PA Partners
(Presidency of the CBI Consortium
(Public body)
Council of Ministers)
Monitoring Focal point Project
co-ordination for the banking management
system
7. Inspiration for project title
Giovanni Falcone was a lead Italian
magistrate involved in the fight against
mafia.
His success derived partly from the
painstaking examination of thousands of
bank records.
He was assassinated at Capaci, near Palermo, in 1992.
9. Overview of the Programme «Prevention
and Fight against Crime – ISEC» (1/2)
This programme (EUR 600 million for the period 2007–13) contributes
to citizens’ security by preventing and combating crime, in particular
terrorism, trafficking in persons, child abuse, cybercrime, illicit drug and
arms trafficking, corruption and fraud.
It focuses on four strands:
• crime prevention
• law enforcement
• witness protection and support
• victim protection.
10. Overview of the Programme «Prevention
and Fight against Crime – ISEC» (2/2)
Financial support is provided for actions that aim at :
• increasing operational cooperation (e.g. strengthening networking,
mutual confidence and understanding, exchanging and disseminating
information, experiences and best practices);
• monitoring and evaluation activities;
• the development and transfer of technology and methodology;
• training and exchanges of staff as well as awareness-raising and
dissemination activities.
12. NATIONAL PROJECT
NATIONAL projects must:
• prepare transnational projects and/or Union actions ("starter
measures")
• complement transnational projects and/or Union ("complementary
measures")
• contribute to developing innovative methods and/or technologies
with a potential for transferability to actions at Union level, or
develop such methods or technologies with a view to transferring
them to other Member States and/or other country which may
either be an acceding or a candidate country
13. OVERALL OBJECTIVE
develop an effective tool for combating organized crime infiltration into public
works contracts, both in Italy and in other EU Countries
This will be achieved by
• developing an automatic alarm system in Italy to signal suspect financial movements in
relation to large public contracts,
• analyzing the compatibility of the system with norms, procedures and strategies in other
MS,
• testing the system on two large contracts in Italy, and on other contracts in selected EU
countries,
• presenting the benefits of the system to the other countries of the EU, and providing
training in selected countries,
• providing a set of guidelines to the EC and to other interested countries,
• providing an overview of the feasibility of extending the system to other parts of the EU.
14. ACTIVITIES
Activity nr. 1: Testing of the system on the "Cannitello Railway switch" and
Rome Metro C;
Activity nr. 2: Development of indicators and alert system;
Activity nr. 3: Survey of other EU Member States (norms and operating
procedures);
Activity nr. 4: Production of Guide;
Activity nr. 5: Training to 2 countries;
Activity nr. 6: Experimentation of the system in other countries;
Activity nr. 7: Management;
Activity nr. 8: Communication and Dissemination;
15. FORESEEN RESULTS
Activity 1
Enhanced knowledge of the functionality of the system; statistics on the number of suppliers,
financial flows monitored; report on the feasibility of upscaling the system.
Activity 2
Set of indicators and description of procedures for alert mechanism.
Activity 3
Enhanced knowledge of the readiness of EU MS to implement a similar system. Report.
Activity 4
Dissemination of the Capaci system; Guidelines Handbook in English, detailing requirements and
procedures for the implementation of the system in other EU MS.
Activity 5
Key experts from two European member states trained; training materials.
Activity 6
Enhanced knowledge of the functionality of the system in two other member states; report on the
experimentation of the system in two EU countries.
Activity 7
Correct and efficient management of project activities and resources; annual technical and
financial reports.
Activity 8
Website and printed materials, international conference.
16. How does it work?
It builds on a previous experimentation of a financial monitoring
system (2009-2011), of which it constitutes an improvement
getting financial support by the European Commission.
Among the outputs of the system:
a database with information on individual transactions and
payment status reports;
a system of alerts/warnings that will report unusual behaviour;
dissemination to other EU countries.
17. Operational logic
Account holders (involved businesses) authorise
the monitoring of their bank accounts
Financial statements and payment status reports of
authorised bank accounts are sent to a central collection
point within the interbank system and then conveyed to the
public entity in charge of the monitoring system
The monitoring system processes the financial data,
making reports available and sending alerts if needed
18. Operational details
Each business holds one bank account for each public
work in which it is involved
Payments only allowed as XML SEPA credit transfers
(with minor exceptions)
Credit transfer tagged with identifying code for specific
public work (CUP)
Credit transfer status report sent to monitoring system
19. CAPACI – First results
and upcoming tasks
First results:
Development of data exploration and reporting system
Survey of legislation in other EU Member States (DE,
ES, FR, NL)
Upcoming tasks:
Development of alert system
International dissemination
21. Extent of CAPACI Project
Id Title Status MoU
Section of Rome Signed D
A On-going
Underground (Jun. 2009)
Cannitello Signed A
B On-going C
railway switch (Aug. 2011)
Pompeii Major
C Starting Being signed B
Project
Cispadana At design Under
D
Motorway stage negotiation
26. Some data on Cannitello start-up phase
Memorandum of Understanding signed in Aug. 2011
22 sub-contracts dated between Mar. 2010 and Jul.
2011
Number of monitored bank accounts increasing regularly
between Oct. 2011 and Mar. 2012
28. Pompeii: a recent history
29/03/2012: European Commission approves funding from
the European Regional Development Fund for a major project
to restore the area of the UNESCO site of Pompeii, in
Campania, Italy.
The project ”preservation, maintenance and improvement of
the archaeological site of Pompeii” will lead to the investment
of 105 million euro of EU and national contributions combined.
05/04/2012: Signature of Memorandum of Understanding
for the inclusion into CAPACI.
30. Advantages for other countries
Promotion of co-operation and strenghtening of networks
Improvement of ability to monitor criminal infiltration in
public works contracts
Facilitation of trans-national participation in tenders,
thanks to higher levels of transparency
31. CAPACI – International dissemination
Production of printed guide
Study visits
Training to other countries
Experimentation in other countries
International conference in Rome
32. ADDED VALUE at EU LEVEL (1)
The added value of the project at European level derives from the fact
that it aims to disseminate a tool developed in Italy throughout the rest
of the Union, with specific attention on the one hand to countries which
are ready to apply this tool with a minimum of preparation, and on the
other to those which are most in need of effective monitoring
instruments in this field.
33. ADDED VALUE at EU LEVEL (2)
Furthermore, the project will produce a survey of practices and
legislative norms in all European countries which will be of great use to
the Commission itself in encouraging greater harmonization in this
area. The interactive nature of the project, which is based not only on
training and dissemination but also on on-the-job collaboration and
practical experimentation in countries outside Italy, will ensure that
these countries receive the full benefit of Italian experience in this area.
34. Thanks for your attention
Riccardo Coletta
rcoletta.guest@formez.it
Mariangela Pantaleo
mpantaleo.guest@formez.it
