Whereas, if European agriculture is to maintain a presence on world markets, the common agricultural policy must continue to aim at increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural holdings; whereas, while the majority of the adjujstments necessary to ensure the long-term competitiveness of Community agriculture must be made through the markets policy, the structural policy, too, must make its contribution by strenghtening production and marketing stsructures as far as possible but without in any way worsening the imbalance between the productive resources allocated to agriculture and the foreseeable outlets; ...
In view of the ongoing financial market crisis and the contraction in economic activity in the euro area, this box outlines fiscal and structural policy measures to increase the economy’s resilience and stimulate productivity and innovation to sustain long-term economic recovery and growth.
Whereas the accession of Spain and Portugal gives rise to additional financial requirements in connection with the structures policy, in particular as a result of the need to comply with certain commitments concerning the improvement of the production, processing and marketing structures for agricultural products in those two countries;
