The Single Area Payment Scheme is a simplified transitional income support scheme for farmers in the new Member States. The Court observes that payments were also made to beneficiaries not or only marginally involved in farming or in relation to unutilised or non-agricultural land. Since the...

This special report covers the systems established in Member States for the recovery of undue payments under the common agricultural policy and the Commission's supervision of the process. The report examines, in particular, the functioning of the '50/50-mechanism', whereby 50 % of unrecovered...