Legal Framework Applicable to Publication of Direct Farm Subsidies in France

• Whereas for a long time Member States had full freedom to make farm subsidies data available, European law now aims at imposing more precise obligations.

• The disclosure of data is not clearly settled by French law.

• The doctrine of the French Committee of Access to Administrative Documents (CADA) is hardly convincing.

• Both for legal and political reasons, nominative and exhaustive divulgation of farm subsidies data seems inescapable.