Hungarian farmers will be able to access SAPARD funds before the end of the year, Minister of Agriculture Imre Nemeth said, according to the MTI. Hungary is the last country which still attempts to ...

OLAF’s most recent confidential report, finalised earlier this month, focused on the spending of SAPARD funding. It revealed a string of illegal acts involving the Nikolov Stoykov Group, which it ...

BY MID-July, only 30 applications had been submitted for agricultural funding in Slovakia under the European Union's Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (Sapard). The ...

On March 29 2010, the Sofia City Court sentenced Nikolov to 10 years behind bars and his wife, Mariana, to 8 years in the notorious SAPARD case. The two were charged, along with Lyudmil Stoykov ...

Officially the "Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development", Sapard is the multi-billion pound Brussels fund set up to help former Eastern Bloc countries drag their backward ...

As the launch of the SAPARD Programme was originally planned for 2000, the first seminars in the framework of an information campaign dedicated to final beneficiaries and administrators took part ...

The European Union has widened the group of firms which can apply for support from the EU's Sapard programme to include companies from all over Slovakia, rather than just restricted areas.

The European Union pre-accession program SAPARD for Bulgaria was officially initiated at the first sitting of the local supervisory committee for the implementation of the program. Agricultural ...

SAPARD : all accredited agencies at the end of 2002. The process of accreditation of the agencies will have considerably delayed the provision of funds in all the 10 CEECs. Two co ...