SAPARD money remains blocked

So far no solution for unblocking funds under SAPARD still examining information sent from Bulgaria. Said today that Michael Mann, spokesman for the EU agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel, cited by BTA, on the exported information from yesterday leader Boyko Emblem Borikov it decided to unblock prevented 140 million in pre SAPARD. This is money for three SAPARD measures, frozen in early 2008 because of weak controls and jiggery-pokery. The program expires at the end of 2009 and prospects for recovery of funds it became more and more negligible.

Michael Mann said he met with speeches in Bulgaria that frozen SAPARD funds may soon be unblocking, as well as today’s call to the Head of German delegation to the Group of European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament Markus Ferber in this sense.
It came from the EPP was the information for placing the stop money for farmers, on Thursday claimed unofficial sources Emblem.

We continue to work to verify information received last month from Bulgaria and I can not give a date when the money can be unblock. Decision will be taken after analysis of that information and I can not say now whether the decision will be positive or negative, said Michael Mann.
At this stage it is impossible to specify a time limit for response. In any case, this response is not forthcoming, he added.

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