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I voted for the request for consultation of the European Economic and Social Committee – European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development on the proposal for a Council regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
I consider that the European Economic and Social Committee should be consulted in view of the strategic importance of the common agricultural policy reforms in 2003 and 2004. Since it has been concluded that the main target of policy reform in the new financial period should be rural development, it must also be underlined that more than half of the EU-25 population lives in rural areas, which cover 90% of our territory.
Rural development is therefore an important political area, a fact that was reiterated in the conclusions of the Lisbon (March 2000) and Gothenburg (June 2001) European Councils. I think it is essential, then, that we, together with the various institutional players, should find measures that will help to monitor and to further supplement the CAP reforms and to ensure that they are consistent with first pillar instruments and policies, and that will also contribute to other political priorities of the European Union, such as the sustainable management of natural resources, innovation and competitiveness in rural areas, as well as economic and social cohesion."@en1
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