Brussels, 19/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 19 April the European Commission adopted a decision to recover €285.3 million of EU farm payments unduly spent by 14 member states. The money will return to the Community budget. The following are the states involved: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The most significant corrections are: €60.6 million charged to Spain for non-respect of payment deadlines in the nuts payment scheme; €53.7 million charged to the United Kingdom for non-respect of payment deadlines; €48.5 million charged to Italy for non-respect of payment deadlines; €35.8 million charged to Greece for failures in the land parcel identification system; €26.7 million charged to the Netherlands because of the insufficient number of substitution controls in the export refund scheme; €8.7 million charged to France concerning the over 30 months slaughter scheme; €7.5 million charged to France for weaknesses in the control system for subsidised interest loans and in secondary controls concerning rural development programmes expenditure. (lc)