Polish communities still may qualify to receive SAPARD grants this year

"Poland still has a chance to get money from the SAPARD fund this year, but we have to act quickly. We could get around euro 168 million," said Agriculture Minister Artur Balazs after the SAPARD conference in Brussels. He also emphasized that local communities would be in real trouble if they did not get the SAPARD money, as they have included it in their budgets for this year. Because of this Balazs has asked the European Union (EU) commissioner Franz Fischer to give Poland the money conditionally. The money would be used for modernizing infrastructure. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 1, 7) M.M.