Commission not looking for Irish funds on latest list

Ireland is not in the latest list of 15 member states from which the European Commission will recover funds, following the most recent clearance of accounts procedure.

Currently, Ireland is fighting a threat of recovery of €181m due to single farm payments for ineligible land from 2008 to 2012.

Last week, the commission claimed back €57 million of CAP money unduly spent in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden and the UK. The most significant individual correction is €20.04m charged to France for weaknesses related to allocation of single payment entitlements.