Poland risks repaying EU farm aid

Poland may have to repay €150 (zł.500) million of farm aid funds to the European Union due to administrative flaws in the distribution of the support, an EU official said on Thursday.

The move came after an audit for 2005-2006 showed irregularities in establishing areas eligible for EU farm subsidies through the use of satellite pictures. "We are not talking about corruption, we are talking about administrative flaws," an official at the EU executive said, asking not to be named.

The Commission may ask a member state to repay up to 50 percent of farm aid funds, depending on the scale of the problem. The final decision will come in early 2009.

Source: Reuters