Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
4 November 2026
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AGRI European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:08 - 03:15
Speaker 2
So, good morning, everybody. I can see that many of our colleagues are not here yet, but I will slowly start and let's hope that they will join us a little bit later. So, welcome here at our today committee meetings. And let's start with first item, adoption of agenda. If I don't see any objection, it was adopted.
So, Chair's announcements, I would like to really thanks a lot to all our colleagues from secretariats, the staff of Parliament, and of course to all our interpreters for their help. And maybe I would at the beginning I would like to mention that we have many visitors today and we only don't know exactly what time who will come, so please, I would like to ask you to help me to recognize them and in only in this case I will be able to welcome them. So, the item three, adoption of minutes from the our meetings the 2, 3 September, 28th of September, and 5 of October. And it's again I think it's adopted. I am sure it's adopted.
The item four, it's first item of our working program, exchange of view with the Commission on the new strategic approach to re- research and innovative for competitiveness, resilient and sustainable agriculture, forestry, rural areas and food systems. Future-proofing EU agri-food through Agri 40 and Food 40. Research and innovation are essential for the future competitiveness and resilient of EU agri and food. The sector must innovate faster to meet growing challenges from climate change to a strong dependence of import imported inputs. The strategy is meant to set the direction for the years ahead and to guide future EU research funding.
It is to be implemented through the next Horizon Europe program and the European Competitiveness Fund, on which our committee adopted its opinion this spring. To present the communication, I gave the floor to Mr. Diego Canga Fano, the representative from the of the Commission. So, Mr. Fano, the floor is yours now for eight minutes.
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