CAP recipient names will be published in 2009

AGREEMENT of the 27 member states in the EU to publish the names of all recipients of Common Agricultural Policy money from 2009 has been welcomed by Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

CAP recipient names will be published in 2009

“This is not as early as I would have liked, but we live in the real world of political compromise,” she said.

She said it will be up to the national authorities to publish the data as it is they who physically pay out the money. “Once we have adopted the necessary Council regulation at EU level the Commission will have to publish detailed rules on precisely what information must be made available. That is what we are looking into now,” said the Commissioner.

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