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Agriculture - Fisheries : This European policy covers 2 main issues: Agriculture and Rural Development.
Agriculture What does our society expect from the agricultural sector and from the food we eat?
How can EU policy enhance economic, environmental and social sustainability in agriculture? What does food quality mean and how does quality relate to price?
According to a Commission poll, for EU citizens the priority of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should be to ensure that agricultural products are healthy and safe, promote the respect of the environment, protect medium or small sized farms and help farmers to adapt their production to consumer expectations.
The aim is transparency, quality and safety and a farm sector in tune with the environment and animal welfare.
Rural development Rural Development policy 2007-2013
On 20 February 2006 the Agriculture Council adopted EU strategic guidelines for rural development - five months after the adoption of the Council Regulation on support for rural development by the new European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
These guidelines set out a strategic approach and a range of options which Member States could use in their national strategy plans and Rural Development programmes.
Since the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, Rural Development is playing an increasingly important role in helping rural areas to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Rural areas make up 90 percent of the territory of the enlarged EU and the new legal framework points more clearly to the direction of boosting growth and creating jobs in rural areas – in line with the Lisbon Strategy – and improving sustainability - in line with the Göteborg sustainability goals.
The future Rural Development policy 2007-2013 will focus on three areas in line with the three thematic axes laid down in the new rural development regulation: improving competitiveness for farming and forestry;
environment and countryside; improving quality of life and diversification of the rural economy.
A fourth axis called "Leader axis" , based on experience with the Leader Community Initiatives introduces possibilities for locally based bottom-up approaches to rural development.
The following list gives you all the european funds available in the field of Agriculture-Fisheries:
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Fund description
Loans for large and small-scale investment projects contributing to EU policy objectives in all sectors of the economy
Domains concerned
Town planning - Agriculture - Fisheries - Transport - Local development - Energy - Telecommunications - Economy - Finances
Grants available for projects at local level focusing on the diversification of rural economies and the improvement of the quality of rural life, financed by the EARDF
Grants in the frame of the European Spatial Planning Observatory Network, a network of cooperation between national spatial planning institutes that will focus on the observation and analysis of territorial and regional development trends in Europe
Domains concerned
Research - Public management - Agriculture - Fisheries - Transport - Local development - Environment - Tourism
