Digital forensic hardware

Topic description

Scope:

The purchase and maintenance of digital forensic equipment and software, mobile forensic tools and computer forensic collaborative systems used in the fight against (fraudulent) irregularities, fraud and corruption detrimental to the Union’s financial interests. Cross-border cooperation enabling the exchange of information and best practices, in particular at operational level, is strongly encouraged.

Specialised training to enable staff to operate these tools is recommended to be included as part of the action.

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. This includes the number of arrests made, convictions, seizures, confiscations, recoveries, prevented losses to the national and Union budgets, and fraud schemes uncovered.