17. Considers that the efficiency of rural development policy can only be achieved if the measures implemented under EARDF and regional development policy are coordinated and complementary, so as to avoid double financing and gaps; notes with concern the insufficient coordination between those actions during the current programming period in the individual Member States; calls therefore on the Commission to propose reforms aimed at ensuring better coordination in the planning and implementation of measures co-financed under the cohesion policy and CAP; recognises that the post-2013 reform of the CAP and the EU Structural Funds will pr ...[+++]ovide an opportunity to re-assess the relationship between rural development on one hand and agricultural policy and cohesion policy on the other;

17. Considers that the efficiency of rural development policy can only be achieved if the measures implemented under EARDF and regional development policy are coordinated and complementary, so as to avoid double financing and gaps; notes with concern the insufficient coordination between those actions during the current programming period in the individual Member States; calls therefore on the Commission to propose reforms aimed at ensuring better coordination in the planning and implementation of measures co-financed under the cohesion policy and CAP; recognises that the post-2013 reform of the CAP and the EU Structural Funds will pr ...[+++]ovide an opportunity to re-assess the relationship between rural development on one hand and agricultural policy and cohesion policy on the other;

[26] Tony Fuller, “Sustainable Rural Communities in the Arena Society,” in Towards Sustainable Rural Communities: The Guelph Seminar Series, John M. Bryden, ed., University School of Rural Planning and Development. Guelph , 1994, pp. 133-139.

LEADER II is assisting joint projects for planning, producing and marketing goods and services throughout the rural economy.

Mr. Apedaile: In 1991, the first annual conference of the Rural Revitalization Foundation, at that time called Rural Restructuring Foundation, invited the director for planning from the national planning commission in France to address our conference in Camrose.

In adopting the principle of the rural lens, cabinet has made a commitment to ensure that the challenges and priorities of rural Canadians are understood and taken into account, both in current initiatives and in long term planning.