With a view to facilitating the implementation of the programme, for each meeting of the Programme Committee as defined in the agenda, the Commission will reimburse, in accordance with its established guidelines, the expenses of one representative per Member State, as well as one expert/adviser per Member State for those agenda items where a Member State requires specific expertise.

Farm advisory services should also help farmers to identify the necessary improvements as regards requirements laid down for the implementation of Article 11(3) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ("the Water Framework Directive"), as well as requirements for the implementation of Article 55 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Article 14 of Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , in particular in relation to the compliance with the general principles of integrated pes ...[+++]t management.

The Union des producteurs agricoles is involved in the issue of temporary agricultural workers through a non-profit corporation set up by the UPA.

A host of other explanations have also been offered for the slow growth in agriculture production in Africa . These include political instability and conflict; limited financial systems, poor access to credit and high rates of interest and bank charges (32% in Nigeria ); and gender bias against women, who form the bulk of the agricultural labour force.

This organisation groups together 87 machinery rings. Machinery rings are farmers' self-help organisations operating at local or regional level.

In this report the Commission gives a global evaluation of the experiment to test the effect that reducing the VAT rate on specific, labour-intensive services has had on job creation and cutting back the black economy.