Verte motion contre le volet agricole de l'Agenda 2000

Article Abstract:

The Wallonian parliament has opposed the agricultural policy set out in the European Commission's Agenda 2000, which could increase the rate at which the number of farms is decreasing, and will cause a fall in activity in the milk, cereals and beef industries. The parliament has rejected the policy of the renationalisation of the PAC and demands a simplification of the means of control of the PAC. It has also demanded that the European Commission looks again at its policies regarding specific rules and preferences for different countries, the standardisation of markets, and financial solidarity. It also demands that guaranteed prices make allowances for real production costs, and that milk and sugar beet quotas are maintained.

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EU: Wallonian parliament opposes agricultural policy set out in European Commission's Agenda 2000

Government regulation, Article

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Support from Brussels

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Czech Republic: The European Union (EU) is ready to provide Czech agriculture and the country with 1-2 bil Kc per year. The Czech Republic should receive the finances within the special pre-admission programme Sapard. The finances are intended mainly for investment. A precondition is that the Czech Republic should have necessary laws by 2000. The laws will allow to transfer public finances to private entrepreneurial entities. Besides, the Czech Republic has to make a plan on the development of the country. The plan will be proposed by the Ministry for the Local Development of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Czech agriculture receives subsidies of about 10 bil Kc per year from the state budget.

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Czech Republic: The European Union (EU) is ready to provide Czech agriculture and the country with 1-2 bil Kc per year.

Czech Republic, Receipt of funds, Use of Funds

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The farmer's almanac

Article Abstract:

Freer agricultural trade is coming irresistably to Asia and the rest of the world in response to rising consumer demand and waning rural political influence. As multilateral trade in manufactured goods becomes freer, it should expand to include agricultural goods, which rising incomes and urbalnization are making available in Asia. Concepts of self-sufficiency in food are largely outmoded, a fact that the pressures of regional, bilateral, and multilateral trade processes recognize.

International aspects, Asia, Agricultural policy

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