[OpenSpending] CAP funds

[Daniel J. F.]

Hi all,

I'm Daniel, a Spanish freelance journalist, and I'm interested in public
spending accountability within the EU. I was surfing on the Internet trying
to get info about beneficiaries of Euro grants and subsidies when I found
farmsubsidies.org. There is an absolute lack of transparency in this issue
-in my country, at least. So your great website gave me the idea of
launching a small data project about mapping the agricultural aid in Spain.

Several months before that, I already got from a colleague a list of 2011
Spanish beneficiares of CAP payments. Then I saw your Google
Spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At9hEvGB0JsUdFpObW1NeGhYRTVjNFFXUjBRbUxQenc#gid=1>,
'Farm subsidy payments of EURO 1 million and more, 2011'. Both files have very
likely the same origin.

I was wondering if OpenSpending has ever tried to gather and merge more
than 3 following financial years of beneficiaries of CAP payments. Spanish
Ministry of Agriculture has a 2010, 2011 and 2012 database which can be
consulted by anybody. But... What about previous years? What if I want to
compile every cent received by top100 companies since 2002 for instance?
That would be really helpful.

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,
D
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At9hEvGB0JsUdFpObW1NeGhYRTVjNFFXUjBRbUxQenc#gid=1>
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