The aid includes the Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS), national direct complementary payments, the separate sugar payment scheme, transitory aid for tomatoes to be subject to transformation and compensatory payments for rural development measures.
The financing is provided through the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the state budget. Romania has been allotted EUR907.473 million for the 2011 campaign.
Between October 16, 2010 and May 14, 2011, EUR942 million was disbursed through SAPS and national complementary payments, including EUR646 million from the EU budget, says an APIA press release.
According to APIA, 1.026 million applications, for 9.14 million hectares, were filed online.
Payments for disadvantaged areas and agricultural environment, for the period 2010-2011, in the amount of EUR293.86 million, will be disbursed in June.