HANS GMEINER Vienna (SN). The agricultural funds, the individual farmers of the EU, the federal government and the states will be irrespective of the amounts will no longer be published. Appear to be in the so-called transparency data bank, which until the end of April online to go, only more subsidies for companies, societies, cooperatives, foundations and other legal entities and public corporations. This was announced by Agriculture Minister Niki Berlakovich on Wednesday. "We thus follow a recommendation by the EU Commission".
Transparency database was made in November 2010 after a European Court of Justice in two cases from the German network. The court found in the publication of beneficiaries of EU agricultural subsidies would have the EU Commission and EU member states a "balanced weighting" between the right of taxpayers to transparency and the interests of the recipients failed.
The farmers were the only profession that has had to disclose the compensation it received from public funds. This resulted mainly in the previous year to sometimes heated discussions and debates. Berlakovich is facilitated. "I do not have the farmers in the network, which only opened a debate envy the gates, but had no value for the population," he said.
all on the net, the farmers are not sure. On farmsubsidy.org, a private Internet platform that has the transparency prescribed in agricultural payments, the data of the farmers through 2009 still online.
Salzburger Nachrichten - Economy / 10.02.2011
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