The average value of payments per area is around EUR180 per hectare. Flaur said that 99.7% of applications were sent online this year.
The error rate of EU payments for agriculture has been reduced from 14.2% in 2007 to 2.8% this year, he added.
Romania's agriculture support agency (APIA) wants to complete all area payments for 2010 by the end of this year and also disburse an advance of EUR42 for 2011, said agency president Marius Florin Faur at the conference Mediafax Talks about Agriculture.