The first General Assembly of the European Network of the Common Agricultural Policy took place on Monday, 6 March 2023, in Brussels, with the participation of the Cyprus Rural Payments Agency and the Head of the Rural Development Department of the CTO, Mr.Lefteris Demetriou. The Director of the Department of Agriculture, Ms Androulla Georgiou and the Head of the Agricultural Applications Branch of the Department of Agriculture, Ms Eftychia Charalambous - Snow also participated.
The new and enlarged Network will assist the implementation of the Strategic Plans for the Programming Period 2023 - 2027 in general, bringing together the representatives of various other networks that were in place in the previous programming period. The meeting was attended by representatives from various government departments of the Member States and the European Commission as well as other stakeholders involved in the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy.
The main objectives of the meeting and the presentations made focused on the following issues:
- The welcome of the new members and their integration into the Network,
- The structure of the Network was presented, the role of the members and what is expected from them was explained,
- The next steps to be taken to decide on the structure of the Network's administration were discussed,
- The Strategic Plans of the different Member States and the activities of the European Commission were presented,
- The key role of the Common Agricultural Policy Networks in the implementation and evaluation of the Strategic Plans and in the promotion of Innovation was discussed and
- An update on the activities of the European Network of the Common Agricultural Policy in general was given.
Of great importance was the briefing given to the participants by the Deputy Director General and the other representatives of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development on the targeting, implementation and evaluation of the Strategic Plans of the Member States and the whole strategy at European level.
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