Welcome to farmsubsidy.org
Farmsubsidy.org uses freedom of information law to force European governments to release detailed data on who gets what from Europe's €55 billion Common Agricultural Policy. We then make this data available in an online database on this website. Data released is highly variable both in quality and completeness. Some countries have refused to release any data.
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Data online
- €66 018 864 333
- 12 145 587 payments
- 6 454 172 recipients
- 21 countries
3 114 892 searches
since 1 Dec 2005
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Latest news 
posted by Jack Thurston
It took four days running a web robot (screen scraper) to extract the data from the Austrian government website but now all the data published on the 23 June is available in a more use-friendly format here. For instance you can search by region, by scheme and you can view results in a list with the highest payments first - the Austrian government site only displays search results in alphabetical order.
posted by Jack Thurston
Farmsubsidy.org is making the following offer to EU member states: give us your farm subsidy payment data and we'll host it here on farmsubsidy.org - for free.
posted by Jack Thurston
Austria today became the first EU member state to launch a website on farm subsidy payments in accordance with the new transparency requirements of the EU Financial Regulation. Within hours, the site had crashed.
posted by Jack Thurston
Answer: When the information is in a database. At least according to the European Commission's recent proposal for a new EU access to information law, which has been roundly criticised by access to information experts.
posted by Jack Thurston
We are proud to release the first product of a new project to map EU farm subsidy payments. The map shows all EU farm subsidy payments in Sweden between 2000 and 2007, around 7 billion euros. Built by Google Maps maestro Martin Green and the farmsubsidy.org team, we think this new way of presenting farm subsidy payment information in a way that is useful to European citizens. We hope you like it.
posted by Jack Thurston
In the media coverage of the unveiling of the Commission's very modest proposals for the CAP 'health check' or mini policy review, a lot of attention has - quite rightly in our view - been paid to the cost of the CAP. The figure of €40 billion a year is often quoted. In fact the real budgetary cost of the CAP in 2006 was a good dea more than that, some €53.5 billion, according to the Official Journal of the European Union, 14 March 2008. Even in the gargantuan world of the CAP budget, €13 billion cannot be overlooked as a rounding error.
posted by Nils Mulvad
The government of the Republic of Ireland has now released to farmsubsidy.org a list of all the payments of the Single Payment Scheme in 2005, totaling €1.2 billion, but with one critical omission: the names of the recipients. The data only details the region and the amount of the payment. Previously the Irish government had only released the names of the top 100 recipients of farm subsidies, after individually writing to each recipient to ask whether they had any objection to disclosure.