Press Release: Europe approves allocations of €500 million of Food for the Most Deprived programme for 2013

The allocation of EU funds for the 2013 Food for the Most Deprived programme was voted through the Single CMO Management Committee on 11 October 2012. It is expected that more than 18 million people in 19 EU Member States will benefit from the €500 million budget available for the most deprived.

This will be the last year that the scheme will run in this form, funded from the CAP. New proposals for a broader, more flexible scheme, more closely linked to social cohesion policy, are due to be presented later this month under the responsibility of EU Social Affairs Commissioner Laszlo Andor.