Report 16/2012: Single Area Payment Scheme effectiveness (NMS)

This procedure evaluates the Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS), which served as a temporary method for providing agricultural subsidies to farmers in EU countries that joined after 2004. The report assesses whether this transitional system effectively supported farmers and prepared them for the full Common Agricultural Policy.

The findings primarily affect farmers in the New Member States and EU agricultural policymakers responsible for managing transition funds and subsidy distributions.