Do you have a fairly strong degree of confidence that the essence of some of the provincial legislation that was in place, the waste control provisions, the farm practice protection, those provisions, will be included in the new regulations?

The court also ruled that the provisions of the Farm Practices Protection Act that apply to fisheries aspects of aquaculture are also invalid.

Those are not fisheries aspects of aquaculture, so those two specific provisions under the Farm Practices Protection Act will not be addressed by this regulation.

3. Recalls the commitment of the EU, and third party members to the OECD - in the framework of the Doha Round negotiations to eliminate all export subsidies; and to decouple direct payments from production so as to create a level playing field between EU and developing countries' agricultural products and stimulate fair trade and sustainable growth; asks the Commission to implement these changes, whilst financing adequate transitional schemes, in order to avoid negative impacts in European rural areas, and to promote organic and sustainable farming practices ...[+++], which have low chemical additives (low external inputs) and whose cultivation practices take into account local natural conditions; calls on the EU to support developing countries' demands to protect their food production and to protect their population from the potentially destructive effects of cheap imports; calls further for investments in research for agro-ecological farming methods and for the provision of public services so as to enable small farmers to convert to sustainable organic production,

38. Points out that the promotion of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications has a key role to play in safeguarding regional specialities, the entire rural culture associated with them and the related ancestral farming practices that enable the countryside and rural farming systems to be preserved as habitats for many wild species;

19. Attaches the utmost importance to restricting farming practices which are particularly detrimental to animal welfare, such as the force-feeding of geese and ducks in connection with the production of foie gras; calls for the recommendations on the protection of ducks and geese which were issued under the 1999 European Convention for the protection of animals kept for farming to be implemented;