The Cyprus Agricultural Payments Agency (CAP) signed today, May 9, 2022, a cooperation agreement with the Agency for Payment and Control of Community Aid for Guidance and Guarantee (O.
The Cooperation Agreement was co-signed by the Commissioner of KOAP Mr. Andreas Kyprianou and the President of OPEKEPE Mr. Dimitris Melas.
The Cooperation Agreement was signed by the Commissioner of KOAP Mr. Andreas Kyprianou and the President of OPEKEPE Mr. Dimitris Melas. The Commissioner was accompanied by the Assistant Commissioner Mr. Andreas Evangellou and other officials of the Agency. The signing of the cooperation agreement took place at the offices of OPEKEPE in Greece.
The Cooperation Agreement provides for cooperation in all areas of the two Organisations' activities. Both the Commissioner of the CAP and the President of OPEKEPE believe that the implementation of the cooperation will be of mutual benefit to both parties.
The Memorandum of Cooperation sets out conditions for cooperation and the mutual exchange of know-how and experience in the areas of competence of the two parties, in particular those related to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the joint undertaking of initiatives and actions within the framework of their respective competences.
Among other things, the aim of the agreement is the exchange of know-how and working experience on legal, technical, organisational and administrative issues relating to both pillars of the CAP, the taking of joint initiatives and/or actions to settle issues in cooperation with the services of the European Commission, as well as with other similar organisations, including the Informal Network of EU Paying Agencies (Learning Network), to explore joint participation in EU-funded programmes and/or exploitation of the results produced by these programmes, and to formulate joint positions to be submitted to the management committees of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development for a vote.
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