Press Release: Minister Coveney confirms publication of EU agricultural payments information

The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, on 4 May 2011, announced that his Department had published, on its website, information on payments to legal entities that were beneficiaries of EU funded and co-funded schemes. The information being published relates to the 2010 EU financial year and provides details of direct payments such as the single farm payment, amounts received under market support schemes such as export refunds and amounts paid out of the rural development fund.

The CAP Beneficiaries Database may be accessed via the Related Url.

• Primary Source

Ireland: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Common Agricultural Policy: CAP beneficiaries publication: Background http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/agri-foodindustry/euinternationalpolicy/commonagriculturalpolicycap/capbeneficiariesdatabase/

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