External audit launched for IPARD funds

Branislav Nedimovic met on Monday with Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Oskar Benedikt on the use of IPARD funds.

The Serbian minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management informed Benedikt that the last of the four conditions for the approval of IPARD accreditation, adaptation of the building of the Administration for Agricultural Payments, has been completed, and that an external audit was started by the competent bodies of the European Commission.