Starting today, beneficiaries under measures 121, 122 и 123 of the Rural Development Programme will be offered easier and speedier access to loans and bank guarantees for implementation of their projects. This is made possible after the National Guarantee Fund signed contracts with seven partner banks: Bulgarian American Credit Bank, DSK Bank, Postbank, UBB, Raiffeisenbank, EIBank and CCB....
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Bulgarian MEP from the EPP /GERB/ Mariya Gabriel deposited a question to the European Commission regarding the legislative changes foreseen by the Commission in early 2013 to reduce or ban the use of many natural ingredients in perfumes. In the justification of the question she points out that such measures would adversely affect the global industry and manufacturers of natural ingredients....
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The Council of Ministers Inspectorate has discovered no violations in the ranking of strategies for the Local Initiative Groups. The report produced by the Inspectorate makes administrative recommendations based on the executed check. In response, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food has taken urgent measures to catch up on the delay of Axis 4 of the Rural Development Programme, implement a...
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Poland on Wednesday imposed new bans on the cultivation of certain genetically modified strains of maize and potatoes, a day after an EU required green light for GM crops took effect. The centre-right government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk imposed farming bans on German BASF's Amflora strain of potato and US firm Monsanto's MON 810 maize or corn, according to a government statement...
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State Fund Agriculture (SFA) has already signed contracts worth €2.399 billion under all Rural Development Programme (RDP) measures. This represents 74,27% of the RDP budget. Of this amount, €1.926 billion comes from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). The EAFRD subsidies disbursed so far total €1.361 billion, or 52,28% of the EAFRD budget. The facts...
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