Financial corrections - CSV / XLS - CAP

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Neculai-Cristian Surubaru

Dear Agriculture and Rural Development,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

a) CSV or XLS dataset on financial corrections applied to all member states during 2000-2015 (or even before 2000 if possible) - for funding relating to the Common Agriculture Policy;

b) CSV or XLS dataset on financial corrections applied to all member states during 2007-2013 - differentiated between Pillar I and Pillar II (Rural Development);

c) CSV or XLS dataset on exact amount of funds member states that have been paid back to the Community budget during 2000-2015, due audit errors / sanctions (etc) for the misuse European funds relating to agriculture (direct payment and rural development OPs) managed by your Directorate.

This is also a follow up to request entitled: Financial Corrections EU-28 and to request: GestDem 2016/3466.

In terms of definitions, there may be a difference between financial corrections applied to a state and the exact amount of money that, all in all, member state have paid back to the Community budget, after legal agreements with the European institutions and the closure of Operational Programmes that your Directorate manages. That is why request (a) is different from request (c).

I am confident that your services have such data sets or can easily create such data sets with the modern IT tools used inside the European Commission.

This information is of public interest and is useful to obtain a good understanding of the amount of funding that has been paid back by national authorities into the Community budget, for the reasons stated above.

I hope this request is clear, yet if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours faithfully,

Neculai-Cristian Surubaru
16 Grindlay Street
Edinburgh
United Kingdom, EH39AS

Agriculture and Rural Development

Dear Mr Surubaru,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 29/07/2016. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 01/08/2016 under reference number GestDem 2016/4341.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on 23/08/2016. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

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Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team

European Commission
DG Agriculture and Rural Development

Unit R.6
L130 4/59
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

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Agriculture and Rural Development

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Dear Sir,

We refer to your e-mail dated 29/07/2016 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on 01/08/2016 under the above mentioned reference number.

The information requested on financial corrections can be found in the attached excel table and in the Commissions' communication on the protection of the EU budget 2015 http://ec.europa.eu/budget/library/bibli...

You may reuse the document free of charge for non-commercial and commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged, that you do not distort the original meaning or message of it. Please note that the Commission does not assume liability stemming from the reuse.

Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team

European Commission
DG Agriculture and Rural Development

Unit R.6
L130 4/59
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

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Neculai-Cristian Surubaru

Dear Sir / Madam,

Thank you for the excellent data provided.

Many best wishes,
Neculai-Cristian Surubaru