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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8008

18 July 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture/fraud
Commission to recover 142.9 million euro in agricultural aid unduly spent by Member States

Brussels, 17/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - In the framework of the traditional procedure of the so-called clearance of accounts of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), now called "Agricultural Audit System", the European Commission decided, on Tuesday, to ask certain Member States to refund a total of 142.9 million euro in agricultural aid considered as having been illicitly spent. These amounts will be demanded due to controls regarded as inadequate or for the...

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