The Department of Co-operation and Co-operative Development Act [ An Act respecting the Department of Co-operation and Co-operative Development ]

The Co-operatives Act, 1996 [ An Act respecting Co-operatives | The Co-operatives Act, 1989 | The Co-operatives Act ]

Canadian Co-operative Association [ CCA | Co-operative Union of Canada | Co-operative College of Canada ]

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe [ OSCE | CSCE ]

wholesale cooperative | wholesale co-operative | wholesaler cooperative | wholesalers' cooperative | wholesalers' co-operative

Federal Information- and Co-ordination Service for Transfrontier Co-operation

Delegation of Switzerland to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

close folding | controlled grazing | ration grazing | strip grazing

Although many Member States are currently conducting feasibility studies to account for cropland and grazing land management, it is unlikely they will be completed before 2014, and therefore the Commission’s proposal to make accounting for these actions mandatory is exceeding international rules and creating distortions for Member States and operators.

23. Suggests that the Member States should include and be obliged to carry out measures to combat drought and desertification and to prevent fires and flooding in the context of their rural development plans by encouraging participation by farmers in the replanting of forests with suitable species, in clearing out forests, in combating erosion and in making better use of water since farmers are the main guardians of the countryside; consequently, calls for the aid established for the creation of fire-breaks in Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) to be maintained and for better support for measures designed to increase the pro ...[+++]fitability of forests and to prevent the depopulation of less economically productive mountain areas which may lie within the Mediterranean region (with particular attention to be paid to keeping combined farming/forestry/grazing operations in business and to protecting meadows);

23. Suggests that the Member States should include and be obliged to carry out measures to combat drought and desertification and to prevent fires and flooding in the context of their rural development plans by encouraging participation by farmers in the replanting of forests with suitable species, in clearing out forests, in combating erosion and in making better use of water since farmers are the main guardians of the countryside; consequently, calls for the aid established for the creation of fire-breaks in Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1991 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) to be maintained and for better support for measures designed to increase the pro ...[+++]fitability of forests and to prevent the depopulation of less economically productive mountain areas which may lie within the Mediterranean region (with particular attention to be paid to keeping combined farming/forestry/grazing operations in business and to protecting meadows);

23. Suggests that the Member States should include and be obliged to carry out measures to combat drought and desertification and to prevent fires and flooding in the context of their rural development plans by encouraging participation by farmers in the replanting of forests with suitable species, in clearing out forests, in combating erosion and in making better use of water since farmers are the main guardians of the countryside; consequently, calls for the aid established for the creation of fire-breaks in Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) to be maintained and for better support for measures designed to increase the pro ...[+++]fitability of forests and to prevent the depopulation of less economically productive mountain areas which may lie within the Mediterranean region (with particular attention to be paid to keeping combined farming/forestry/grazing operations in business and to protecting meadows);