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"Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear today that agriculture alone is less and less able to sustain communities in rural areas, particularly in the case of young people. The recently published 6th periodic report on the European regions demonstrates this clearly by revealing that the 25 most heavily agricultural regions in the European Union have the highest rate of unemployment, in addition to their traditional problems of an ageing population and desertification.
I would consequently like to highlight three issues:
First of all, it is crucial that the choice of local action groups responsible for organising and operating the projects should not be influenced by politics. Instead, the choice should be made solely on the basis of the projects’ merits. Preference should be given to those projects most closely involved with private organisations, more than 50% of which should never be made up of LAG partners.
The second issue is that, in actions for cooperation between LAGs and similar organisations in third countries, the Commission’s original text must be respected – item 18, not the restrictive version by the STAR Committee, which was produced without the consent of this Parliament. I have therefore proposed an amendment to this effect, which the Committee on Agriculture has adopted and which I hope the plenary will also adopt.
Thirdly, I would like to remind you that after 2006, LEADER must no longer merely be a Community pilot initiative but must form a rural development component of the CAP, which I think should be called the “common agricultural, regional and rural policy”.
I would like to congratulate Mr Procacci on his excellent report."@en1
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"That is why the Commission gradually and unfortunately too slowly has been launching initiatives which will in time balance out or complement the CAP, by increasing the coverage of all the endogenous resources in rural areas and by utilising them for initiatives and investments which will increase prosperity and employment for communities, farming or other communities. That was the intention of the recent policy on rural development launched in the Agenda 2000 reform. In particular, that was the intention of the Community LEADER initiative which was launched as LEADER I and LEADER II, in 1991 and 1994, and which continues today through LEADER+."1
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