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Monday, 10 March 2008
Eighth Sitting of the Agriculture Committee
At its eighth sitting, held on 10 March, the Agriculture Committee considered the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management’s Work Programme for 2008, with a special focus on legislative activity and the Ministry’s Information on the drafting of an agricultural and rural development strategy.
At its eighth sitting, held on 10 March, the Agriculture Committee considered the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management’s Work Programme for 2008, with a special focus on legislative activity and the Ministry’s Information on the drafting of an agricultural and rural development strategy.
The sitting was chaired by the Committee Chairman, Radoslav Milovanovic, and attended by the State Secretaries in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management, Milan Petrovic, Ljubisa Dimitrijevic, Danilo Grubic, as well as Assistant Ministers Dobrivoje Sudzum and Dusan Protic.
State Secretary Milan Petrovic briefed the Committee members on the current results of the Ministry’s work in the agrarian field and briefed them on the agrarian policy for 2008. According to Petrovic, direct subventions into agricultural production will be of particular importance this year, as well as the plan for short-term and long-term loans to agricultural producers. He also presented the Information on the drafting of an agricultural and rural development strategy in
Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Dusan Petrovic briefed the members of parliament on the bills the Ministry has prepared which will be included in the procedure of the next convocation of the National Assembly. These are first of all bills on plant health, food safety, amending and modifying the Law on agricultural land, on wine, brandy and alcoholic beverages and on agriculture and rural development.
Committees related to this activity
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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12.00 - public hearing of the Culture and Information Committee on the topic: Public interview with the proposed candidates for Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media Council members (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, office 53)
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15.00 - the PFG with Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta meets with the Italian delegation to the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Dimension (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)