European Communities - Eighteenth Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 17 March 1998.

CONTENTS

	Paragraph
PART 1 INTRODUCTION	1
Background	4
The proposals in Agenda 2000	6
Structure of the report	14
PART 2 VIEWS OF WITNESSES	15
Encouraging Competition	15
Modulation	16
Compensation payments	17
Adequacy for the next WTO round	18
Effects of Agenda 2000 and the Transition to Competition	19
Rural Environment	23
Why pay for environmental measures?	23
Funding	24
WTO acceptability	26
Environmental policy delivery	27
Market failures / environmental services	28
Regulation	30
Incentive	31
Advice	32
Less Favoured Areas	33
Cross-compliance	34
Horizontal approach	35
Integration	36
Monitoring	40
Need for clarity of objectives	41
Rural Development	42
Economic diversification	44
Rural services	48
Rural communities	51
Merging of urban and rural Objectives	52
Urban v. rural conflict	54
Horizontal availability	55
FEOGA (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund)	56
Administration in the United Kingdom	57
Enabling schemes	59
Private sector involvement	60
LEADER	62
PART 3 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE	63
Creating a competitive EC agriculture	63
Compensation payments	65
Modulation	67
Wider economic context of reform	68
Rural Environment	69
Why have an environmental policy	69
The need to build on existing arrangements	71
The need to simplify	72
The importance of decoupling	73
Less Favoured Areas	74
Funding principles	76
Co-financing	78
Monitoring	79
Cross-compliance (conditionality)	80
Rural Development	83
The role of structural development policies	83
Economic development and the role of farming	84
Diversification off the farm and part-time farming	85
On-farm diversification	86
The new rural economy	87
The importance of horizontal measures	88
Merging urban and rural Objectives	89
Source of funding for rural development	90
Administration and implementation	91
Planning	93
The place of rural development	94
PART 4 SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION	95

Appendix 1-Membership of Sub-Committee D

Appendix 2-List of Witnesses

Appendix 3-Glossary

NOTE: Pages of the report are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text are as follows:

(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence;

(p) with a bold number refers to a page of the report and with an ordinary number to a page of evidence.

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