Traducción de «Servicio de Reforma Agraria y Colonización de Tierras » (Español → Inglés) :

Van Rompuy to discuss immigration and economy at CoR Plenary; farm reform and public services also on the agenda

The purpose of cooperation in this area shall be the pursuit of agrarian reform and the reform of agricultural structures, the modernisation, privatisation and restructuring of agriculture, stock farming and the agro-industrial and services sectors in the Republic of Tajikistan, and the development of domestic and foreign markets for Tajik products, in conditions that ensure the protection of the environment, taking into account the necessity to improve security of food supply and to develop agri-business and the ...[+++]processing and distribution of agricultural products.

Areas for intervention may include agriculture, including land reform and land policy, sustainable management of and access to natural resources, food security in relation to rural and local development, including infrastructure, nutrition, demography and labour, migration, health and education.

by helping to provide the basis for effective land reform in Russia, allowing the introduction of private property, and providing technical assistance to this process (e.g. through a functioning land register).

16.The introduction of a land reform process is required to facilitate, inter alia, the long term lease of land as collateral for loans, paving the way for more investment in the agriculture sector.

Finally, with regard to the implementation of the O.P. s selected for audit, the principal observations were : - very slow progress in implementing the generally perceived urgent need for land reform; - inadequate levels of verification of projects approved under the Bad Weather and Drought Operational Programmes; - the acceptance of applications in regions not covered by the Bad Weather Operational Programme as well as the acceptance of ineligible expenditure; - the approval, without adequate evaluation, of aid in excess of 1 billion Escudos (5.6 million ECU) for an extensive development of 300 hectares of glasshouses which turned ou ...[+++]t to have been wildly optimistic and which has since failed with the possibility of the loss of the entire Community aid, - an apparent irregularity, involving a material amount of Community aid in the Forestry Operational Programme, which has serious consequences in that it would appear to have been perpetrated by employees of the Forestry Institute, a State Body; furthermore, there was a failure on the part of the Portuguese authorities to inform the Commission services and, accordingly, no independent investigation of the incident has, as yet, been undertaken.