1. Support for forestry shall contribute to the maintenance and development of the economic, ecological and social functions of forests in rural areas. ... Such support shall contribute to the fulfilment of the undertakings given by the Community and the Member States at international level. It shall be based on national or subnational forest programmes or equivalent instruments which should take into account the commitments made in the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe.
2. Subnational political systems. Although national government is the dominant form of political organization in the modern world, an extraordinary range of political forms exists below the national level - tribal communities, the intimate political associations of villages and towns, the governments of regions and provinces, the complex array of urban and suburban governments, and the great political and administrative systems of the cities and the metropolises. These subnational entities are, in a sense, the basic political communities - the foundation on which all national political systems are built.
3. The objective of the Own-initiative Opinion of the Committee of the Regions is to demonstrate how the partnership principle is carried out under the present regulations and to assess the role of the democratically elected regional and local authorities in them. The objective is not to produce a blueprint for the ideal partnership because these partnerships must reflect local and regional economic conditions and be adapted to different models of subnational government. However, the Opinion suggests ways in which the regional and local authorities' role can be strengthened within the partnership principle.
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