The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development or DG AGRI is a Directorate-General

Directorate-General

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 of the European Commission

European Commission

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. The DG AGRI is responsible for the European Union

European Union

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 policy area of agriculture and rural development. The director-general (as of October 2010) is José Silva Rodríguez.

Mission

The mission statement of DG Agri is closely linked to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The DG's current concrete concerns include http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/agriculture/mission_en.htm:

• Managing and developing the CAP
• Reinforcing rural development policy as the "second pillar of the CAP"
• Safeguarding the European model of agriculture
• Conducting the enlargement process

Resources

The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has a staff of about 1000 people.

• Commissioner: Dacian Ciolos
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• Director General: Jean-Luc Demarty

Structure

The DG AGRI encompasses 12 Directorates, all headquartered in Brussels

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, Belgium

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:

• A: International Affairs I, (in particular WTO
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   negotiations)
• B: International Affairs II, (in particular enlargement)
• C: Economics of Agricultural Markets and single CMO
• D: Direct Support, Market Measures, Promotion
• E: Rural Development Programmes I
• F: Rural Development Programmes II (SAPARD)
• G: Horizontal Aspects of Rural Development
• H: Sustainability and quality of agriculture and rural development
• I: Internal Resource Management
• J: Audit of Agricultural Expenditure
• K: Relations with other Institutions; Communication and Documentation
• L: Economic Analyses, Perspectives and Evaluation
• M: Agricultural Legislation

External links

• Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development