Traducción de «Plan de utilización de tierras » (Español → Inglés) :

1. Where it is established that the ratio referred to in Article 3(1) of this Regulation is decreasing the Member State concerned shall, at national or regional level, provide for the obligation of farmers applying for aid under any of the direct payment schemes listed in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 not to convert land under permanent pasture without prior authorisation.

The Commission has already authorised the use for feeding purposes of land set aside under the arable crop scheme from 9 August 2002 onwards on condition that at least 33% of the forage area of the holding has been flooded in certain regions of Germany, Austria, Ireland and the UK.

The Commission's information on forestry actions in Member States is still incomplete. The system in place for implementing forestry measures is complex. This creates difficulties for both managing authorities and beneficiaries. A number of weaknesses were found in the implementation of forestry measures such as varying interpretations in prioritizing the land to be afforested, unclear project selection criteria and unsatisfactory arrangements for deciding on eligibility relating to land use, loss of income and whether beneficiaries were farmers. Afforestation carried out by municipalities does not receive aid for the maintenance of seed ...[+++]lings and young plantations.

STRESSES the need to achieve greater synergies between climate change and biodiversity policies as a way to secure co-benefits, in particular by strengthening mutually supportive activities and measures with regard to climate change mitigation, including reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and adaptation, as well as with regard to the production and consumption of and trade in biofuels and biomass and associated concerns regarding conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems; ENCOURAGES the Member States and the Commission to strengthen efforts aimed at halting biodiversity loss by 2010 also through the implementation of actions included in the Communication on Halting the Loss of Biodiversity b ...[+++]y 2010 – and Beyond, and in its Action Plan, as referred to in the Council conclusions of 18 December 2006; STRESSES that full implementation of the Natura 2000 network both on land and at sea is an essential step towards reaching this objective; URGES the Commission and the Member States to develop efficient and cost-effective policy means for integrating biodiversity concerns into policies and programmes of all relevant sectors, to ensure that further economic development does not take place at the expense of biodiversity and that biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides can continue to contribute to sustainable economic development; UNDERLINES the importance of engaging all actors, notably business, to protect biodiversity, and in this context RECALLS the need to further promote the EU Business and Biodiversity Initiative; STRESSES the importance of accompanying these actions with the implementation of the Communication strategy foreseen in the EU Action Plan which should include awareness raising activities targeted at different interest groups; STRESSES the need to increase efforts to strengthen the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity ...

Therefore, the Commission has proposed further measures (com(93) 417 final) to enable the reform to be applied more flexibly. This involves a further amendment to the basic set aside rules set out in Regulation (1765/92): - to encourage further control of production, farmers who set aside more than the obligatory minimum (15%) may also be compensated for the extra fallow land; - to ensure sensible application, Member States may limit the use farmers make of this extra flexibility, for environmental reasons, or to avoid the danger of abandonment of land in certain regions; - farmers will have the possibility to operate both fixed and ro ...[+++]tational set-aside on their holdings at the same time; - set-aside compensation to be increased to the equivalent of 57 ECU per tonne of cereals (from the present 45 ECU per tonne); - at present, under rotational set-aside, the producer may set-aside each part of his land only once, within a period of six years.

MEASURES RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL SET-ASIDE AND BIOMASS Pending the Opinion of the European Parliament, the Council held its first discussion on the Commission proposal concerning better environmental use of set-aside land and the production of biomass.