APIA director Florin Marius Faur said around 98.5% of the total funds should be paid up by April 10.
The agency will also run controls in parts of the country where serious instances of overlapping and duplication have been identified when applications for subsidies were sent in the past. A full-on inspection will be launched after the application period ends on June 11, Faur said.
Last year, after every claim was centralized, the agency found 1.6 million overlapping applications. Right now, with 33% of applications sent in, APIA has identified only 100,000 cases of duplication.
APIA began accepting requests for the 2012 edition of the area payments scheme at the start of March. Between January 2011 and February 2012, the agency authorized and made payments of around EUR2.9 billion, including EUR1.93 billion in European funds, for the area payments campaigns of 2010 and 2011, as well as state aid.
Between 2007 and February 2012, APIA made payments of around EUR5 billion from EU funds. The allowance for farming support until 2013 is around EUR8.2 billion.