Arctic agriculture

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Mikko PESALA (ELDR, FIN) on arctic agriculture. (Please refer to the summary dated 02/12/03.) Parliament asked the Commission to determine whether import protection is necessary as far as reindeer herding is concerned and stressed that, with the aid of Community support, reindeer herding could be developed as the local inhabitants so decided. It is also important to promote research on subarctic agriculture and such research projects should be funded under the EU framework programme. �