Submitted by laborate on wed, 26/12/2012 - 13:50 GMT.
Last December 20th, in Lalín (Pontevedra, Spain)
it was held a meeting that was attended by the Land Laboratory
and the Rural Development Groups of Galicia.
The main aim of this meeting was to reach a consensus about
the most important actions to carry out both in rural field
and in the daily management of the groups themselves, always
looking for better coordination to ensure that these actions
are most effective. Another objective of this conference
was to search for new ways to make it easier to come up
with new procedures that make easier get the aforementioned
consensus.
It is expected that an additional meeting will be held in
early January, 2013. The aim of this meeting is the search
for concrete actions for the new funding for the period 2014-2020 of the LEADER program
of the European Union (EU), where special focus on the consequences
of the current economic crisis, changes in the new Common Agricultural Policy
of the EU an the evolution of the agricultural and food industries.