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6. Points out that closer coordination of local actors could help strengthen rural economies, especially in the most vulnerable regions, including the mountain regions, and in the most distant among them, such as the outermost regions; emphasises that territories could benefit from a better organisation with a view to identifying the full potential their resources (including latent resources) offer, in the interests of all the actors linked by a relationship of interdependence and solidarity (i.e. those involved in the agriculture sector, handicrafts and craftsmanship, tourism, heritage, and including producer’s organisations, associa ...[+++]tions and chambers of commerce, etc); notes that the purpose of this strategic coordination is to tap resources by incorporating and going beyond a sectoral or single- industry approach and instead call for the employment of territorial approaches which generate new revenue at territorial level through the marketing of sets of complementary goods and services which reflect the specific characteristics of each territory; stipulates in this regard that this territorial governance shall back firmly the creation, development and improvement of work to promote farm and food products covered by existing quality schemes based on defence of intellectual property, and at the same time as promoting high quality services (which do not benefit from official European recognition), with enhanced mutual promotion of farm produce and services, and all parties demonstrating solidarity so that all goods and services from their own local area are promoted;

The Commission has noted on the basis of information supplied by the United States of America that an official programme, the Kiln Drying Sawn Hardwood Lumber Certification Program, has been approved by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, US Department of Agriculture and will be operated by the US National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA).

The most important aspects of the Protocol are the provisions regarding the accession of the new Member States to the EU-Israel Association Agreement, the adjustment of the Protocol as regards agricultural products and the inclusion of the new official languages of the European Union.

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(16) W.J. Youden; Steiner, E.H.; "Statistical Manual of the AOAC-Association of Official Analytical Chemists", AOAC-I, Washington DC: 1975, p. 35 ff.

Among those who appeared before the committee were Mr. John Kolk and Mr. Ed Fetting; officials from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the Canadian Meat Council, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, the Association of Manitoba Municipalities, the Alberta Association of Municipalities, the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, the Western Stock Growers' Association, ...[+++] the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Mr. Bob Speller.