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• Learning from grant evaluations

  Audit | 13-10-2011

  

  The government spent more than €6 billion on all manner of grants in 2010. Does it check that they are used effectively? This question was at the heart of our audit. We investigated whether government grants were evaluated properly and whether ministers made good use of the outcomes of evaluations, for example by adapting or withdrawing ineffective grants. We also considered whether the information the ministers provided to the House of Representatives regarding the effectiveness of grants was a true reflection of the information in the evaluation reports.
  
  

• Sustainable energy production schemes (MEP and SDE); Impact Assessment 2010

  Audit | 25-03-2010

  

  In this report we look back at an audit we carried out at the request of the House of Representatives of the Grant Scheme for the Environmental Quality of Electricity Production (MEP) that we published in May 2007. The MEP must lead to 9% of electricity consumption in the Netherlands being generated from sustainable sources. Under the MEP, energy producers receive a government grant for the green electricity they produce from, say, biomass or wind power. The scheme was closed to new applications in August 2006 because the minister thought the MEP goals for 2010 would be achieved without needing to award new grants. In April 2008, the Minister of Economic Affairs (EZ) introduced a new grant scheme for sustainable energy: the Sustainable Energy Production Scheme (SDE). When drawing up this successor to the MEP, the minister took account of the findings and conclusions of our earlier report.

• Elite Sport in the Netherlands

  Audit | 24-09-2008

  Court of Audit identifies four challenges to ambitious elite sport policy. An audit to mark the retirement of Board member Pieter Zevenbergen

• Grant Scheme for the Environmental Quality of Electricity Production ('MEP grant')

  Audit | 15-05-2007

  Inadequate management try to encourage green electricity production. Wind energy producers are over-subsidised.

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