- up to € 40 000 for farm workers who decide to stop all farm work definitively upon the transfer of the holding.

Invalidity pension under the general social security system or under the agricultural workers scheme

Furthermore, while most of the demand for farm labour occurs during the summer months, the bulk of the olive-grower's work takes place during the winter, thus providing significant additional income.

New measures to be proposed in a future strategy should include: common EU criteria and guidelines (although the practical details of the action programme must be determined at national level to allow for tailoring of general criteria to local circumstances); training of, and advice to, farmers, farm workers, seasonal workers and other users in order to reduce environmental and health risks, part-funded through a fair levy on pesticides which should preferably also be introduced in third countries to avoid distortion of competition and; attention on reducing pesticide-related risks, which may also involve reducing the quantities of che ...[+++]micals used, particularly when tailored to national, regional and local requirements.

Following the economic and social agreement concluded in Portugal between the two sides of industry (SETAA/UGT and CAP), the COPA (Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the EEC) and the EFA (European Federation of Agricultural Workers in the Community), today signed, at the Plenary Assembly of the Joint Committee on Social Problems of Agricultural Workers, an addition to the European Agreement on the Improvement of Working Conditions, setting out a timetable for a progressive reduction of weekly working hours in the agricultural and breeding sectors in Portugal.

He pointed out that his organization had been largely in favour of the reform of the CAP, but also mentioned his concern about agricultural employment, the need for increased skills, and the risks of a decline in working conditions and job safety.