Ireland is to pay back over €600,000 to the European Commission for its failure to comply with rules on agricultural spending.
The majority of the money, some €397,000, is to be clawed back by the Commission because of weaknesses in Ireland's Early Retirement Scheme and Young Farmers' Installation Scheme.
It is believed that the Commission was highly critical of weaknesses of part of the Early Retirement Scheme in which agricultural advisers provided declarations or certificates vouching that the farmer had farmed for 10 years preceding the farm transfer and that the transferee had a specific number of years experience in farming.
http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/irish-ordered-to-pay-600k-back-to-europe-29108448.html
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