Argea and late payments: 200 employees are missing, agency targeted in Brussels
The European Commission has launched an audit and urged the Region to fill vacant posts in the staff by 2024
Argea in the sights of Brussels for late payments (symbol image from the archive of L'Unione Sarda)
Late payments and gaps in Argea 's staff under the European Commission's lighthouse.
The Agency, which has long been in the eye of the storm for late payments to farmers , has ended up in Brussels' crosshairs : as a paying agency, Argea must comply with a series of requirements set by the EU in terms of quantity and quality of human resources.
And the gaps in staff, in addition to causing delays in the disbursement of funds to Sardinian farmers, have prompted an internal audit by the European Commission, which urges the Region to fill all vacancies by 2024. And they are not few, given that on a organic plant of 580 units, about 200 are missing .
In the regional council - Productive Activities Commission - there was talk of a plan to make up for the delays , on all those in the bovine sector, of fruit and vegetable refreshments and aid against drought. Such as? With a recruitment plan, the use of external contracts, the enhancement of technological services and a package of simplification measures.
The president of the commission Piero Maieli (Psd'Az) hypothesized a resolution after a joint verification with the Labor commission on the possibility of increasing hiring.
(Unioneonline / L)
