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Straujuma: EU funding for rural development policy in Latvia still unclear

Nina Kolyako, BC, Riga, 24.02.2012.Print version
The European Union's agricultural policy reform must come into force in 2014, however, it is still not clear how the bloc intends to fund its rural development policy, Latvian Agriculture Minister Laimdota Straujuma pointed out during yesterday's meeting with Baltic Agriculture Ministers in Poland.

Straujuma visited the Polish town of Augustow and met with Polish Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Marek Sawicki, Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Kazimieras Starkevicius and Estonian Agriculture Ministry's Deputy State Secretary Peeter Seestrand. The officials discussed the Common Agricultural Policy regarding the next planning period for 2014-2020, reports LETA.

 

Polish and Baltic agriculture ministers agreed that rural development funding amounts and criteria are currently unclear. So far, the European Commission has not come up with any proposals on this highly important matter.

 

As reported, direct payments to Latvian farmers are currently the lowest in the EU. Latvia emphasizes that the payments will be fair only when their minimum level will amount to at least 80 percent of the average level across the EU (LVL 150 per hectare).





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