Translation of "Index Numbers Farm Prices Agricultural Products " (English → French) :

To ensure the sustainable development of rural areas, it is necessary to focus on a limited number of core priorities relating to knowledge transfer and innovation in agriculture, forestry and rural areas, to farm viability, to the competitiveness of all types of agriculture in all regions and promoting innovative farm technologies and the sustainable management of forests, to the organisation of the food chain, including the processing and marketing of agricultural products ...[+++], to animal welfare, to risk management in agriculture, restoring, preserving and enhancing ecosystems that are related to agriculture and forestry, to the promotion of resource efficiency and the shift towards a low carbon economy in the agricultural, food and forestry sectors, and to promoting social inclusion, poverty reduction in and the economic development of rural areas.

9. Urges the Commission to re-examine the objectives of the CAP towards 2020 with a view to boosting food production, supporting small and medium-sized farmers and stockbreeders and reducing consumer prices, by strengthening the intervention mechanisms and guaranteeing adequate intervention prices that secure farm prices, which should allow a fair income for farmers and agricultural ...[+++] workers, and fair prices for consumers;

8. Calls on the Commission to swiftly carry out the pilot project on the creation of a European farm prices and margins observatory (supplemented by data on prices, margins and volumes) for which Parliament and Council adopted a EUR 1.5 million appropriation under the 2010 budget, to establish it within the Commission and to include a comparison of sustainable production costs and farm gate prices ...[+++] for conventional and ethical product differentiae in key farming sectors of Member States and social-economic situations;

The specific supply arrangements were introduced to guarantee supplies to the outermost regions and offset the additional costs arising from their remoteness, insularity and distant location by lowering the price of essential products. The scheme to support local production in the outermost regions, involving a multitude of products and measures to encourage their production, marketing and processing, has proved effective and allowed the develop ...[+++]ment of a number of traditional agricultural products which would otherwise have disappeared.

- Safer and environmentally friendly production methods and technologies and healthier foodstuffs: The objective is to develop lower input farming systems (agriculture and aquaculture) based on systems such as integrated production, lower-input methods including organic agriculture and the use of plant and animal sciences and biotechnologies and improved transformation processes ...[+++] aimed at producing safer healthier nutritious, functional and varied foodstuffs, and animal feed, responding to consumer expectations, and improving the quality of food and feed through innovative technologies.

E. whereas it has become essential to reorient the export section of the CAP towards developing Community agricultural production by means of a coherent food and farming policy, to ensure the level of internal supply and combat farm price dumping at world level, whilst respecting the principle of food sovereignty and a steadfast defence of food security,