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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/144",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 20 February 2006 on Community strategic guidelines for rural development (programming period 2007 to 2013) (2006/144/EC)",
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  "path": "annex/division/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "INTRODUCTION",
  "text": "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.\nThe Community strategic guidelines for rural development will help to:\nidentify and agree the areas where the use of EU support for rural development creates the most value added at EU level,\nmake the link with the main EU priorities (Lisbon, Göteborg) and translate them into rural development policy,\nensure consistency with other EU policies, in particular in the fields of cohesion and environment,\naccompany 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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