Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2011/689/EC of 14 October 2011 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2011 L 270, p. 33), in so far as it imposes on the Italian Republic a flat-rate financial correction of EUR 7 0 9 12 382 in respect of irregularities in controls concerning milk quotas, found in the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Lazio, Ma ...[+++]rche, Puglia, Sardinia, Calabria, Friuli Venezia Guilia and Valle d’Aosta, in the years 2004/2005, 2005/2006 and 2006/2007.

Further, specific conditions on the compliance with the principles of the common organisation of the markets in agricultural products are set out in Section 1.1.1.1 on investment aid on agricultural holdings linked to the primary agricultural production, in Section 1.1.4. on start-up aid for producer groups and organisations and in Section 1.2.2. on aid for closing of production capacity, of Part II of these Guidelines.

Gordon Conway, Ph.D., President of the Rockefeller Foundation and an agricultural ecologist.

(10) Whereas the Community has undertaken a reform of the common agricultural policy which includes structural and accompanying measures for promoting rural development; whereas in this context the Guidance Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) should continue to contribute to attaining the priority objective of the development and structural adjustment of the regions whose development is lagging behind, by improving the efficiency of the structures of production, processing and marketing of agricul ...[+++]tural and forest products and developing local potential in rural areas; whereas the EAGGF Guarantee Section contributes to attaining the priority objective of economic and social conversion of areas facing structural difficulties, in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations(7);

We have with us Denis Chartrand, Director of Statistics Canada's Agriculture Division; Cathy Cromey, Chief of Statistics Canada's Census of Agriculture in the Agriculture Division; and Marco Morin, Chief of Statistics Canada's Farm Income and Prices Section in the Agriculture Division.

Whereas, in particular, the principle should be maintained that the Fund should include a Guarantee Section for the expenditure of the common organisation of the agricultural markets and a Guidance Section for common expenditure relating to agricultural structure ; whereas the Commission is responsible for the administration of the Fund and whereas close co-operation between Member States and the Commission is provided for within a Committee for the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund;