On 1st October 2015, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) organised another “fi-compass” seminar in Vienna. These seminars aim to inform the Member States about how financial instruments can contribute to the EAFRD objectives and how they could be implemented in practice. The conference was opened by Mihail Dumitru, Vice-Director of DG AGRI, Markus Hopfner, director of department in the Austrian Ministry for Agriculture and Martin Scheele, Head of unit at DG AGRI.
On 1st October 2015, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) organised another “fi-compass” seminar in Vienna. These seminars aim to inform the Member States about how financial instruments can contribute to the EAFRD objectives and how they could be implemented in practice. The conference was opened by Mihail Dumitru, Vice-Director of DG AGRI, Markus Hopfner, director of department in the Austrian Ministry for Agriculture and Martin Scheele, Head of unit at DG AGRI. Sebastian Beiglböck from OIR presented the contents of the “Handbook on the ex ante assessment of financial instruments in the agricultural sector” which has entered its final project phase. The OIR acts as a consultant in a framework contract with EIB counseling on financial instruments in the field of Agriculture and Rural Development. For more information on the event, see www.fi-compass.eu.
