Special Report No 10/2009: Information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products

In this report, the Court analyses the management of the information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products in order to ascertain whether this policy is effective and whether the expenditure involved is regular.

The report finds that progress is being made in the way the scheme is managed, but highlights other aspects still needing improvement. These observations focus in particular on the difficulty of measuring the scheme's impact and on the control weaknesses identified in some Member States.

The report accordingly makes a number of recommendations whose impact could be all the more significant insofar as the budget devoted to the information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products is likely to increase if the review currently being made by the Commission results in the latter making a proposal along these lines.