less favoured areas

An important question is how to maintain agricultural production in less favoured areas.

Less favoured areas, particularly mountain areas and small farms, need to be given special consideration.

Thus well-protected holiday beaches sometimes take a toll from less favoured areas.

The importance of granting appropriate compensatory payments for less favoured areas is indisputable.

We will also maintain direct support for farming the Less Favoured Areas in ways which encourage good environmental practice.

That is because the proposed decoupling puts less favoured areas at most risk, and we must deal with the risks as quickly as possible.

It is also encouraging that the European Parliament wishes to support young farmers and traditional family farms, above all in less favoured areas.

Coming from Scotland, I am particularly glad to see a strong statement in favour of less favoured areas in paragraph 82.

The Tobermore ward area contains 59 farms, of which 7 farms are situated in less favoured areas.

Support for farming in Less Favoured Areas.

Where less favoured areas are concerned, Commissioner, 12 months ago this House delivered a report on the redefinition of these, in which we were highly critical.

Similar findings have been reported by Davies (1983) for the 'less favoured areas'(the uplands) of England and Wales.

The geography of Scotland means that many of our rural areas are Less Favoured Areas which require specific support measures.

Previously the Government was prepared to pay only 50 per cent in Less Favoured Areas and 40 per cent outwith them.

The lower premium for milking-sheep and goats is rejected and a higher supplement proposed for sheep and goats in less favoured areas.

Italy and the Irish Republic joined with the UK in extending the Directive's scope to other 'less favoured areas' in addition to mountains.

Nor is it acceptable that less favoured areas have been forgotten in the new reallocation of quotas. These areas should have been included, along with the mountain regions.

He also dismissed the Borders NFU claim that the differential premium for hill and upland farmers, in Less Favoured Areas, had been eroded.

I believe that rules must be adopted concerning the use of the terms 'mountain' and 'island', given the significant resulting added value for agricultural and food products from these less favoured areas.

And I say no to a modulation which is the same regardless of differences between favoured and less favoured areas, and which does not take account of the farmers' incomes.

Agriculture in the uplands is given very substantial financial supports, mainly stemming from EEC Directive 75/ 268 - The Less Favoured Areas Directive.

Sir Hector Monro announced yesterday that farmers in Less Favoured Areas would be paid 75 per cent of the cost of repairing flood defences damaged by the storms.

Moreover, let me welcome among the priorities of the new Czech presidency the will to initiate discussion on the redefinition of the Less Favoured Areas parallel to the Commission communication.

The EEC Directive on Less Favoured Areas seeks to identify DRAs principally, though not entirely, from an agricultural point of view, and to establish policies to assist them.

Political resources include financial resources too, because the European budget has solidarity: solidarity between new and old Member States of the Union, between more and less favoured areas, between net contributors and beneficiaries.