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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union was confronted with a major challenge following its enlargement to include 10 new Member States. We have been debating the new rural development policy for over a year. The main goal of this policy is to improve living and working conditions for families living in the countryside and to increase the number of new non-agricultural activities covered. The policy also aims to help restructure and modernise agriculture and to increase agricultural competitiveness, at the same time as protecting the environment.
A solution is needed to the problem of adequate funding for rural areas. Poland in particular is in urgent need of such funding, as it is suffering from structural problems and very high unemployment. The new Member States should be excluded from any cuts the EU makes to funding for rural development. These Member States were told that full direct payments would be phased in over a 10-year period, on the grounds that we were in greater need of funding for rural development, and yet the EU now wishes to curb its spending on the latter.
If the European Commission wishes rural development in the former cohesion countries to bear the brunt of funding cutbacks, it should ensure that this does not take place at the expense of the new Member States.
We can only hope that the introduction of a single funding and programming instrument will make it easier to manage and control the new rural development policy. State forests, which are home to natural landscapes of exceptional value, should also be eligible for support under the new fund, as otherwise our progress towards the Natura 2000 objectives could be adversely affected.
Technical assistance should be provided for authorities and local action groups in the new Member States in order to ensure that the LEADER axis can be fully implemented without any problems.
Particular attention should also be paid to the development of human capital. This is especially true in the case of women and young people, who play a leading role in rural development."@en1
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