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Agriculture and Rural Development
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23/01/2012
The European Commission has launched the CAP@50 communication campaign to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Common Agricultural Policy, a cornerstone of European integration, that has provided European citizens with half a century of food security and a living countryside.
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16/12/2011
"Trade must fully play its part as the driver of growth and development. The European Union's commitment to the Doha cycle reflects this firm conviction", stated Commissioner Dacian Cioloş during the eighth World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Geneva (Switzerland).
30/11/2011
Research and innovation will be crucial in the coming years to ensure food security while helping farmers to tackle climate change. The agriculture of tomorrow will be a knowledge-based agriculture, stated Dacian Cioloş, European Commissionner for Agriculture and Rural Development, after the adoption by the College of an important research and innovation package, « Horizon 2020 ».
He added : « These decisions confirm that this is a priority of the European Commission ».
21/11/2011
After 2013, the Common Agricultural Policy will be simple both for administrations and farmers while being efficient in ensuring food security, a sustainable use of natural resources and a balanced development of all our rural areas, wrote Dacian Cioloş,Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development in a letter to the European ministers of Agriculture and to the Members of the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament. In this document, the Commissioner underlines that the simplification aspects have been taken into account at all stages of the drafting process of the CAP reform proposals, not only streamlining the current instruments available today within the CAP to make its more targeted and more efficient – like cross compliance, management of rural development programmes, control systems etc. – but also the new tools proposed.
12/10/2011
The European Commission has presented today a draft reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period after 2013. This draft aims to strengthen the competitiveness, sustainability and permanence of agriculture throughout the EU in order to secure for European citizens a healthy and high-quality source of food, preserve the environment and develop rural areas.
21/09/2011
Commissioner for EU Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloş is fully committed to maintaining the European food aid scheme for the most deprived persons (MDP).
15/09/2011
Commissioner for EU Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloş had a two days visit to Finland, where he had meetings with the Finnish Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Jari Koskinen and with representatives of the agricultural producers and forest owners unions MTK and SLC. Travelling to North Karelia, the commissioner participated today at the second edition of the Koli Forum, dedicated to the management and development of natural resources and bioeconomy.
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Diary
03/02/2012 -
Visite en Espagne
06/02/2012 -
Mission to Germany
07/02/2012 -
Meeting with Dr. Kandeh K. YUMKELLA, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
08/02/2012 -
Meeting of the European Commission
