A clear message that cross -checks will proceed through the full range of biological programs, as well as those who received a subsidy from the OPECEPE sent by the Minister of Rural Development and Food Costas Tsiarasin an interview with ERA1.
As he announced, the checks ‘Complete to the big recipients’ and gradually “More categories will follow.” They are already proceeding with the audit team, with the participation of the Financial Police, AADE and ministry officials »with the aim of having clear results very soon. In terms of biological programs, he stressed that from the first samples of intersections “About 50% of the controlled do not qualify for them to be integrated into the biological program.”
Referring to the exaggerations and failures identified, he spoke of numbers outside reality. For example, as he said, in Crete “93,000 hectares were declared for organic farming and the next district was 16,000 hectares”. He also pointed out that it was stated ‘Huge number of hives’ For organic beekeeping, to the extent that – as he typically said – “One could not accept that all the hives in Greece can operate through the program. “. In this light the Costas Tsiaras He decided to freeze payments while – as he explained – multiple cross checks will be preceded.
Elsewhere, he stressed that ‘There is a significant departure from biological programs’, As beekeepers, breeders, growers withdraw on their own from the application of the file they had submitted. At the same time, he denounced mass avoidance of controls, saying that “While an appointment has been made the next day, the auditors disappear and many of them do not answer the phones.”
At the same time, the Minister of Rural Development and Food stressed that the certification bodies are now targeting. As he pointed out, “We will look at whether the certificates, which actually certified a organic farming, organic beekeeping, biological livestock farming, worked on the basis of the procedure.” Made it clear that “It has been decided to be universal in the whole spectrum.”
About the case of OPECEPE Kostas Tsiaras pointed out that the phenomenon has timeless features: “Anyone who believes that all these issues are limited to two periods of time controlled by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is obviously self -sufficient.” As he underlined, “We must all understand that it is a long -term issue, a timeless pathogenicity.”
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