Korn Fahrzeuge is active in the repair, maintenance, service and distribution of tractors and agricultural equipment as well of commercial vehicles and trucks.

(7) Korn pursues three main activities: (1) agricultural technology (repairs, maintenance, service and distribution of tractors and agricultural equipment, including equipment and replacement parts for them, and the development of wood grinding machines), (2) the purchase and sale of commercial vehicles and trucks, including service and the sale of replacement parts and accessories, and (3) environmental engineering (metal construction and the production of waste disposal containers).

(20) Korn is active in repairs, maintenance, service and distribution of tractors and agricultural machinery as well as equipment for them and replacement parts.

As a result, the Commission can grant financial aid to restore infrastructures and equipment which qualifies for support as well as aid to agricultural structures within the framework of the forthcoming programme planning for the period from 2000 to 2006, which is shortly to be discussed with the French authorities.

It does not matter whether one is buying a tractor or a litre of diesel fuel or repairs for something on one's farm, the tax component if one tracks it backwards through every stage of production in many cases, I would suspect in most cases, amounts to some 50 per cent of the cost when the farmer goes to buy it from his agent (1640) If we were not being taxed to death in order to maintain this excessive debt load, then the prices of farm inputs would automatically go down and we would be more competitive on the world stage.

The first programme is the Post-Flood Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Programme of 15 million ecus, which consists of : - an agricultural component of 7.3 million ecus, comprising supply of spare parts for the repair of small scale irrigation pumps damaged by the flood, supply of new irrigation pumps as replacement of lost or destroyed pumps and spare parts for trucks which are essential for transport to and from the flood-affected areas in remote parts of Northern Sudan; in this region small scale farmers were the most severely hit by the August floods and rains, which destroyed many of their houses and most of their irrigation infra ...[+++]structure (pumps and irrigation canals); - a transport component of 7.7 million ecus, comprising reconstruction of the major road bridge of Geneina in Darfur Province in Western Sudan and earth moving equipment, materials and motor trolleys to the Sudan Railways Corporation for permanent repair and strengthening of railway embankments damaged by the floods and the reconstruction of a damaged railway briilways Support Programme of 19 million ecus, of which an important part (11.5 million ecus) consists of the reconstruction of 5 major bridges and 18 smaller bridges and drainage structures on the Western railway line from Kosti to Babanousa, aimed at making this railway line more reliable during the rainy seasons, during which until now, due to insufficient drainage, flood damage has caused railway traffic to be disrupted each year/.