The European Union’s financial watchdog, the Court of Auditors, has released a critical report about the European Commission’s management of the EU’s oil seeds support scheme.
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Notably, it said that Brussels only evaluated the 1991 scheme in 2000, it also accepted regionalisation plans containing overstated historical yields and the €29.3m (US$28.3m) granted between 1992 and 2000 was higher than the amount specified by EU law, increasing European expenditure by €366 in this time.
There were also errors made by Member States in applying penalties for seed growers breaking set-aside rules. The Court told the Commission to examine how it could recover aid that had been wrongfully paid out.
