Integrated Administration and Control System
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Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is an administrative tool used by the European Union for geographical data, particularly land use data. It was first introduced in 1992 by EU Council Regulation 3508/92 to manage and control agricultural subsidies to farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)[1] and prevent fraud.[2] IACS provides a system to create and maintain a database of georeferenced data for agricultural land at the land parcel level which is standardised across all EU countries and can be used to ensure that land eligibility criteria are met and subsidy payments made are accurate.[3]