Press Release: 2nd European Conference on rural development ‘Planting seeds for rural futures – Rural policy perspectives for a wider Europe’

From 12-14 November 2003, the European Commission will hold a major conference about the future of rural development. The 'Planting seeds for rural futures - rural policy perspectives for a wider Europe' conference will take place in Salzburg, Austria. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for a wide reflection on the experience of the current generation of rural development programmes (2000 - 2006) which receive European Union funding and to set the priorities for the future rural development policy for the next programming period from 2007 onwards in an enlarged EU.

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/agriculture/events/salzburg/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/agriculture/events/salzburg/index_en.htm

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