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The majority of the inhabitants lived from farming and animal husbandry, keeping cows, goats and sheep, and they processed and transformed the raw materials which the animals provided, principally milk, into high-quality cheese products in different shapes.

The main characteristics of ‘Aglio Bianco Polesano’ are its glossy white colour, the shape of its bulb and the high dry matter content which characterises it and contributes to its long shelf life.

Whether it's biodigesters, whether it's creating a revenue stream from carbon credits, or whether it's using waste material to generate biofuels—I know Quebec has done some research on using SRM, and I was recently talking to a cattle producer from Saskatchewan who was concerned about the high cost of disposing of SRM—or whether we use switchgrass that has been grown on buffer zones, which of course, as you know, is another very important environmental initiative, we can create a real integrated policy in the whole approach to environmental sustainability.

The Commission and the Central African region have agreed an ambitious pro-development agenda which will provide an excellent platform for supporting Central Africa’s regional integration process There is already a good legal framework in the Central Africa region – most obviously, the legislation necessary for the operation of the customs union.

Another element behind that decisions was the assessment that the skills and experience gained in the Candidate Countries from this form of management would be excellent preparation for them as new Member States by making major contribution to administrative capacity building.