Traduction de «programme pour l'agriculture de montagne » (Français → Anglais) :

In order to fulfil their objective effectively, the Parties to the Convention act in the areas of regional planning, the conservation of nature and the countryside, mountain farming, mountain forests, soil conservation, tourism and recreation, energy, transport, prevention of air pollution, water management, population and culture, and waste management.

20. Points out that agriculture in the mountain regions of the candidate countries, because of the natural disadvantages, is clearly less competitive than agriculture in these countries in general; calls on the Commission to review the objectives and funding of the pre-accession programmes for the candidate countries (SAPARD) with regard to agriculture in the mountain regions of these countries; calls on the Commission also, in r ...[+++]elation to the mountain regions, to develop a logical plan for structural support for the forthcoming mid-term review at the end of 2003 and the period after 2006, which takes account of enlargement;

18. Considers that, building on the studies in the EU's fifth framework programme for research and technological development, the support for specific mountain agricultural research must be continued in the sixth framework programme, on a practical basis and related to specific areas, including the definition and review of agricultural policy objectives and measures; considers that the results should be disseminated systematically and used in training and advisory services in mountain farming ...[+++];

In the light of the memoranda forwarded to the Commission by Austria, France and Italy on hill farming and forestry, the opinion drawn up by the Committee of the Regions on a policy for hill farming in Europe, and the broad consensus regarding these traditional activities, which are seen as the cornerstone of any form of sustainable development in mountain areas, it is proposed that income support be stepped up for farms by means of compensatory allowances and that the principle of differentiated rates of assistance for mountain areas with regard to aid for investment, industry, technical improvements, processing and marketing of product ...[+++]s (farming, stockbreeding, forestry and other basic activities) should be maintained (reintroduced) in the regulation on rural development.

In order to fulfil their objective effectively, the Parties to the Convention act in the areas of regional planning, the conservation of nature and the countryside, mountain farming, mountain forests, soil conservation, tourism and recreation, energy, transport, prevention of air pollution, water management, population and culture, and waste management.

In addition, cows whose milk is intended for the domestic market of the region may be taken into consideration for the calculation of the compensatory allowance in all areas of the region specified in Article 3 (4) and (5) of Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on mountain and hill farming in certain less-favoured areas (17), up to a maximum of 20 livestock units.