On 11th June 2007 the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia adopted the Law on Establishing an Agency for Financial Support in Agriculture and Rural Development for the purpose of successful implementation of the measures under agriculture policy and rural development policy in the Republic of Macedonia. Hence, it provided efficient management of the funds under the both the Budget of Republic of Macedonia and the EU pre-accession assistance for rural development.

The competences of the Agency are the following:

• implementation of the measures for direct payment in agriculture;
• interventions in the agriculture products market;
• implementation of the production quotas;
• implementation of the rural development measures;
• implementation of the EU funds from the pre-accession assistance for rural development;
• implementation of the agriculture measures funded under the government assistance.

Activities of the Agency:

• receiving, recording and processing of applications for financial support;
• authorization of funds payment;
• organization of financial and accounting activities;
• internal audit;
• organization, implementation and coordination of the administrative and technical controls and on-the-spot controls;
• data collecting and processing;
• keeping databases and registers;
• preparation of reports and analyses.

• Agency/Fund

• FYR of Macedonia

• Ms Dragana Colkova