May 27, 2008
May 23, 2008
" If peri-urban areas are in a sense both green and grey, a good way of avoiding a false distinction is to call them purple" suggested Mariann Fischer Boel, Member of the European Commission responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development.
" If peri-urban areas are in a sense both green and grey, a good way of avoiding a false distinction is to call them purple" suggested Mariann Fischer Boel, Member of the European Commission responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development. On 22 May, Only two days after the Commission’s legislative proposals about the "Health Check" of the CAP, she admitted that "on the edge of so many European towns and cities, or even inside them, there are valuable areas of land where wheat grows or where cows graze happily in full view of office blocks". "These must not be allowed to fall off the policy map" she declared.
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May 21, 2008
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May 19, 2008
Apr 23, 2008
The first amendment considers the need for coherent, integrated development in both rural and peri-urban areas, reinforcing key agricultural sectors, rewarding effort and compensating for extra burdens. The second amendment takes the view that European agriculture can provide environmentally-friendly solutions to the most pressing problems facing our urbanised society in peri-urban regions as well. Finally, the third amendment draws attention to the role played by farmers and land managers in peri-urban areas in promoting solutions that meet both Lisbon (knowledge, research, innovation) and Goteborg (sustainability) objectives.
The EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) has also voted in its support for the peri-urban cause. Recommendation 54 of the CoR Report was adopted during the plenary session of February 7, 2008.
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Mar 12, 2008
The European Parliament
114. Considers, especially, that any future system must focus more strongly on aspects of the social, economic and territorial coherence and integrated development of rural and also peri-urban areas, reinforcing key agricultural sectors, rewarding effort and compensating for extra burdens, and risk management; considers that the relationship between the first and the second pillar must be entirely redefined for this purpose;
115. Takes the view that European agriculture can provide environmentally-friendly solutions to the most pressing problems facing our urbanised society in peri-urban regions as well, and can thus contribute to achieving the objectives of the both the Lisbon and Göteborg strategies;
116. Draws attention to the particular role played by farmers in peri-urban areas; peri-urban farmers and land managers can promote solutions that meet both Lisbon (knowledge, research, innovation) and Goteborg (sustainability) objectives.
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