Traducción de «superficie agrícola útil » (Español → Inglés) :

-favoured rural areas is an essential component of the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy, rural development policy. Over half of the utilised agricultural area has been classed by the Member States as less-favoured areas. Mountain areas (including arctic regions north of the 62nd parallel which are also regarded as mountain areas on account of their climatic conditions) account for around 16% of the area.

2. A farmer who is required to submit each year a declaration of the total utilised agricultural area of his holding, at the occasion of an aid application, as provided for in Article 22(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, shall indicate in that declaration those parcels used for agriculture which are located in areas referred to in Article 114(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 or in areas listed in Annex X to this Regulation as appropriate.

In 1998/99, there were approximately 4.5 million hectares under olive trees in the EU, i.e. 4% of usable agricultural, 44.5% of the total in Spain; the EU dominates world olive production, with harvests which constantly throughout the 1990s, particularly in Spain, reaching the unprecedented figure of 2.46 million tonnes of virgin olive oil in 2001/2002. Trade in olive oil has become a salient feature of the market, with exports doubling in the last 10 years to 324 000 tonnes, and particular attention was paid to control and quality, especially in 2001, with quality rules being laid down for olive sector products and their marketing.

In 1998/99, the area under olive groves in the EU was approximately 5,4 million hectares, that is, about 4 % of the utilisable agricultural area, of which 44,5 % were in Spain, 26,3 % in Italy, 18,8 % in Greece, 9,7 % in Portugal and 0,7 % in France.

Many of the questions addressed in the report and the motion for a resolution, such as land prices or the availability of farmland or inheritance tax or the tax status of farms, are matters for which the Member States alone are responsible.

Whereas these amendments do not increase the utilised agricultural area of the less-favoured areas in France by more than 1,5 % because the areas are already classed as less-favoured pursuant to Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 950/97;