(10) In order to help beneficiaries to become more aware of the relationship between agricultural practices and management of farms on the one hand, and standards relating to the environment, climate change, good agricultural condition of land, food safety, public health, animal health, plant health and animal welfare on the other, it is necessary that Member States establish a comprehensive farm advisory system offering advice to beneficiaries.

23. Stresses the need to speed up the procedure for accessing EU funds for the recovery of agricultural land following floods and fires, and for more financial aid to be made available for the development of firebreaks and flood defences; stresses the fatal effects of forest fires and floods on animals and livestock;

28. Stresses the need to speed up the procedure for accessing EU funds for the recovery of agricultural land following floods and fires, and for more financial aid to be made available for the development of firebreaks and flood defences; stresses the fatal effects of forest fires and floods on animals and livestock;

a single farm payment or single payment scheme (SPS) for EU farmers, independent from production; limited coupled elements may be maintained to prevent abandonment of production, this payment will be linked to the respect of environmental, food safety, animal and plant health and animal welfare standards, as well as the requirement to keep all farmland in good agricultural and environmental condition ("cross-compliance"), a strengthened rural development policy with more EU money, new measures to promote the environment, quality and animal welfare and to help farmers to meet EU production standards starting in 2005, a reduction in di ...[+++]rect payments ("modulation") for bigger farms to finance the new rural development policy, a “financial discipline” mechanism to prevent spending exceeding the ceiling.

to support politically and financially the plan, which represents a first package of measures for the settlement of the conflict and the establishment of cooperation, foreseeing the withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from five occupied regions of Azerbaijan (Fizuli, Djabrail, Zangilan, Gubadly and Agdam) in combination with the restoration of the Baku-Nakhichevan-Yerevan railway, thus enabling the rehabilitation of these regions and creating necessary conditions for return of Azeri IDPs to their homelands;

(21) With regard to crop cultivation in the Azores, the small cultivatable area, the small size and fragmentation of farms and the extensive nature of production all make for high production costs. It is vital that these crops (beet, chicory, potatoes, tobacco, pineapples, wine, tea, etc.) continue to be cultivated as an alternative to counterbalance the predominance of livestock farming, and to ensure this the aid granted to the local processing industry should be continued.