This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. Nearly 7 percent of the European Development Fund EDF goes to non-Governmental organisations NGOs According to a report released by the EU s own European Court of Auditors ECA on Sunday, the eligibility of EU funding does not depend on NGO status. According to the report, 1.7 percent of the EU's entire budget goes to NGOs or 6.8 percent of the EDF. For the period 2014 -- 2017, it was around €11.3 billion 9.7 billion but it acknowledges that there is no common definition at EU level of what an NGO is concerned about how European taxpayer funds are allocated.
Greedy' VDL blasted as new law gives EU unprecedented power It added that the European Commission was not sufficiently transparent regarding the implementation of EU funds. '' Catherine Griset MEP tweeted on Monday: "The EU distributes money to non-governmental organisations, even though it does not agree on a precise definition. Any structure can claim to be an NGO! The Commission applied the NGO status in the Commission's accounting system because of the limited checks the ECA made the classification of an entity as an NGO unreliable, according to French publication Le Point. A lack of transparency and reliability of information is something mentioned throughout the ECA's report, meaning that exactly where funds are going is information that the EU does not have to hand. NGOs who subcontract work out to other entities do so without this information being recorded in the Commission's systems. This means that an NGO could pass EU funding onto other organisations without the oversight of the bloc.