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Division 1 INTRODUCTION

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Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 defines the purpose and scope of assistance from the EAFRD. The Community strategic guidelines identify within this framework the areas important for the realisation of Community priorities, in particular in relation to the Göteborg sustainability goals and to the renewed Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs.

The Community strategic guidelines for rural development will help to:

  • identify and agree the areas where the use of EU support for rural development creates the most value added at EU level,

  • make the link with the main EU priorities (Lisbon, Göteborg) and translate them into rural development policy,

  • ensure consistency with other EU policies, in particular in the fields of cohesion and environment,

  • accompany the implementation of the new market-oriented common agricultural policy (CAP) and the necessary restructuring it will entail in the old and new Member States.