Romanian Farmers To Get Direct Payments For Certified Areas –Official

Romanian farmers will most likely be assigned direct payments from EU funds gradually, as of February 2008, only for those farming areas that have already been checked and certified by independent auditors, Romania’s European Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban said Friday.

1 view

Direct payments from EU funds reach nearly EUR50 per hectare for each farmer plus other EUR30 as additional payments from the state budget.

In the fall of 2007, Romania came close to a 25% provisional cut in farm subsidies from the European Union after the European Commission warned it might activate the safeguard clause if Romania fails to solve the deficiencies at APIA, institution managing the payment system for farmers.

Orban added that one of Romania’s priorities for 2008 consists in actually spending EU funds as soon they get into its "pocket" this year.

He also stressed Friday that Romania will prove in 2008 that it really knows how to administrate such funds.

If you liked this story, please follow MEDIAFAX.RO on FACEBOOK »

The content of mediafax.ro is for your information only. Republishing or using this content is forbidden without express consent of MEDIAFAX. For this consent, please ask for it by mail at vanzari@mediafax.ro.