Traduction de «Loi favorisant le crédit à la production agricole » (Français → Anglais) :

In 1993 the Farm Credit Act was replaced with the Farm Credit Corporation Act, which expanded the mandate of the FCC to better respond to the needs of the agricultural sector.

For instance, the act supports job creation and economic growth by providing a temporary hiring credit for small business to encourage additional hiring; by expanding tax support for clean energy generation to encourage green investments; by extending the mineral exploration tax credit for flow-through share investors by one year to support Canada's mining sector; by simplifying customs tariffs in order to facilitate trade and lower the administrative burden for businesses; by extending the accelerated capital cost allowance for i ...[+++]nvestments in productivity-improving machinery and equipment for Canada's manufacturing sector; and by eliminating the mandatory retirement age for federally regulated employees in order to give older workers wishing to work the option of remaining in the workforce.

Emphasises that the production of biofuels should not interfere with food production or compromise food security; believes, however, that balanced policies to promote increased European yields in feedstock crops such as wheat, maize, sugar beet and sunflowers could include provision for biofuel production, taking account of ILUC, in a way which could provide Europe’s farmers with a secure income stream, attract investment and jobs into rural areas, help address Europe’s chronic shortage of (GM-free) high-protein animal feed, make Europe less dependent on fossil fuel imports; believes that in cases of market oversupp ...[+++]ly of the agricultural products referred to, the production of biofuels and bioethanol would represent a temporary outlet which would maintain sustainable purchase prices, safeguard farmers’ incomes during crises, and serve as a market stability mechanism; stresses the need to encourage the integration of uncultivated arable land which is not being used to produce food into the production of bioenergy, with a view to meeting national and European renewable energy objectives.

in the medium and long term, consumers appreciate products of a consistently high quality; the advertising of quality control schemes which aim to achieve consistently high quality standards is likely to promote consumer confidence in Community agricultural production, improve farm incomes and thus promote the development of the sector as a whole moreover, quality products clearly have specific characteristics which are not shared by other similar products; advertising of these characteristics will not mislead the consumer and is al ...[+++]so likely to contribute to the development of the sector; for those reasons, instead of being spread on the basis of a set of positive criteria as in the past, support should be focused on advertising campaigns in favour of quality products defined as products fulfilling the criteria established pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.

(1) By Decision 89/687/EEC(2), the Council adopted a programme of options specific to the remote and insular nature of the French overseas departments (Poseidom) in accordance with the Community's policy of assistance for the outermost regions. The purpose of the programme is to facilitate the economic and social development of those regions and enable them to benefit from the advantages of the single market of which they are an integral part despite the objective factors leaving them geographically and economically isolated. The programme calls for the CAP to be applied in those regions and provides for special measures to be adopted. In particular, it provides for measures to improve the conditions in which agricultural ...[+++]products are produced and marketed in those departments and to mitigate the effects of their exceptional geographical situation and constraints as since recognised in Article 299(2) of the Treaty.

The intent of the Farm Improvement and Marketing Co-operative Loans Act is: ``to increase the availability of credit to farming operations and farmer owned marketing co-operatives to improve farm assets and strengthen production and financial stability''.