9. Considers it crucial that the investment in science should be coupled with investment in the skills of people, with a view to promoting modern farming and the diversification of rural activities; education, training and advisory services are essential components driving knowledge-based growth of rural businesses; it is therefore necessary to focus advisory and training services on the drive for innovation at every level (product innovation, process innovation and management innovation); stresses, above all, the need to support young farmers in developing the skills needed for the administration and mana ...[+++]gement of agricultural enterprises;

To conclude, I would like to express my gratitude – and I apologise to the Commissioner in advance for my poor pronunciation of Danish – to Thorkild Birkmose, Henning Lyngsø Foged and Jørgen Hinge of the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service, who produced this excellent study.

Here in my hands I have the excellent Danish study – which again has nothing to do with the fact that the Commissioner is Danish – produced by the National Centre of the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service.

The first priority axis continues to include the measure “Setting up of young farmers” within the subgroup of measures aimed at improving the human potential (together with the measures: vocational training and information actions for persons engaged in the agricultural and forestry sectors, early retirement of farmers and farm workers, use by farmers and forest holders of advisory services and setting up of farm management, farm relief and farm advisory services, as well as of forestry advisory services ...[+++]).

The first priority axis continues to include the measure “Setting up of young farmers” within the subgroup of measures aimed at improving the human potential (together with the measures: vocational training and information actions for persons engaged in the agricultural and forestry sectors, early retirement of farmers and farm workers, use by farmers and forest holders of advisory services and setting up of farm management, farm relief and farm advisory services, as well as of forestry advisory services ...[+++]).

In such cases, the amount of the interest subsidy may not exceed the value of the single premium, except in the case of young farmers using agricultural advisory services, during a three-year period, for which the ceiling is €30 000.