Translation of "Rapport bisannuel sur la pauvreté " (French → English) :

To the Committee’s knowledge, no other federal parliamentary committee has written a report devoted exclusively to rural poverty, although rural poverty has emerged as a theme in some more general studies of poverty such as the 1971 Special Senate Committee on Poverty’s report, Poverty in Canada (the Croll Committee report).

Para 33 of May 2005 Council Conclusions: "The Council invites the Commission to monitor and regularly report on the implementation of these EU commitments on MDGs, including annual reports on the follow-up of the EU commitments on financing and on the effectiveness of aid, and a biennial report on Policy Coherence for Development".

The trend however also shows, as highlighted in many of the national Biennial reports, that the measures undertaken to address the shortcomings identified in 2009 in the first Biennial Report have produced positive results.

3. Organisations benefiting from an extension as referred to in paragraph 1 up to two years shall forward the non-validated environmental performance report to the Competent Body in each year that they are exempt from the obligation to have a validated environmental performance report.

In 1997, according to ECHP data on poverty in terms of income (Eurostat methodology), 19% of the Italian population were living below the threshold of 60% of the median income, of which 34.7% in the south, 9% in the north and 19.1% in the centre. Income distribution is also unequal within these geographical areas, which increases the differences in social cohesion The risk of poverty in terms of income is taken into account, and the main categories of persons subject to this risk are identified (e.g. large families, young people and dependent elderly people). It is noted that poverty increases with the number of minors in the household.

33. The Council invites the Commission to monitor and regularly report on the implementation of these EU commitments on MDGs, including annual reports on the follow-up of EU commitments on financing and on the effectiveness of aid, and a biennial report on policy coherence for development".