COURT OF AUDITORS
November 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) financial watchdog - the Court of Auditors - has discovered "weaknesses" in the EU's scheme for subsidising cotton production in Greece and Spain and has called on the European Commission to correct matters in its proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The court says that following the introduction of new aid rules last year the Greek authorities have been "constrained" from assessing eligibility for subsidies and the Commission's monitoring of grants has suffered as a result.EU aid is provided to ginners on ...
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