The subsidies for Bulgarian projects under SAPARD until now amount BGN 637,1 M, officials informed. About BGN 200M is the money frozen by the EC under SAPARD, Bulgaria's Minister of Finance Plamen ...

SAPARD money for Bulgaria might be unblocked after the end of the forthcoming audit, Dimitar Tadurukov said. Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia Photo Agency) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Romanian government has fired the director of its SAPARD agency, responsible for managing EU pre-accession aid for agriculture. Mr Stefan Mitrache was dismissed for mismanagement and conflict ...

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 ...

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 ...