The European Union’s wine sector is second to none: it delivers the best quality wine in the world, it is extremely diverse and it is an important part of our cultural heritage.

17. Believes that the existing Community programmes in the culture sector do not fully reflect the implications of Europeans’ common cultural heritage, and calls on the Commission, therefore, to propose that specific programmes be drawn up in order to foster artistic creativity and preserve the links, on a wider scale and at a deeper seated level, with the goods and values, both tangible and intangible, that constitute European cultural heritage and to enable those goods and values to interact according to the humanist conception of i ...[+++]dentities and differences and in present-day cultural works, thus making it possible to reap and share their benefits;

Succession under a contract lease or inheritance or anticipated inheritance from a farmer who is a natural person and who was a lessee of a holding or part of it, in the reference period, which would give right to payment entitlements, shall be treated as the inheritance of a holding.

1. A farmer who received, by transfer free of charge or by lease for six or more years or by way of actual or anticipated inheritance, a holding or part of a holding, that was leased to a third person during the reference period, from a farmer who retired or died before the date for lodging an application under the single payment scheme in its first year of application, shall receive payment entitlements calculated by dividing a reference amount, established by the Member State, in accordance with objective criteria and in such a way as to ensure equal treatment between farmers and to avoid market and competition distortion, by a number ...[+++]of hectares not higher than the number of hectares of the holding or part of the holding he received.

(b) they have received the holding or part of the holding, by way of actual or anticipated inheritance, by a farmer who met the conditions referred to in point (a), or

At the same time, they express the Christian view of human life which, for two thousand years, has formed a precious part of Europe’s cultural and spiritual heritage and which, as we confront the new millennium, is a valuable asset for Europe to further build upon in the struggle for human rights.