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Rural Development policy 2000–2006

On the European Commission's Rural development website you will find a wide range of information on the "second pillar" of the Common Agricultural Policy.

These include:

• EU legislation
• Publications, reports and studies
• Monitoring and evaluation of rural development programmes
• the new Community Initiative for rural development: Leader+
• the Rural Development Programmes in the different Member States
• new Member States: Post-accession rural development instruments

Notice: For Rural Development measures under Sapard (Special accession programme for agriculture and rural development) please visit our "Enlargement" website.

Rural Development policy 2007-2013

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Background

Legislation

Publications

Monitoring and evaluation

New Member States

COUNTRY FILES

Council Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Protocol on Mountain Farming attached to the Alpine Convention [pdf]

Leader+

"Planting seeds for rural futures"
Rural policy perspectives for a wider Europe

2nd European Conference on Rural Development,
12-14 November 2003, Salzburg (Austria)