The Agriculture and Fisheries Council discussed the long-term strategy for agricultural research and innovation on 15th February, 2016.
According to Commissioner Phil Hogan, the Strategy will be finalized by April. The objective is to create an agricultural strategy that leads to a more innovative production, entails less emissions and deals equally with sustainable agriculture and fishery.
Deputy State Secretary, Zsolt Feldman stated that the Hungarian Government pays special attention to the agricultural research and innovation policy. He also emphasised that CEE countries, including Hungary, has special agricultural research and development needs that had not been taken into consideration during the allocation of financial resources from the European Research and Technological Development Programme. He pointed out that CEE countries have to determine jointly those particular goals, which they consider necessary to reflect in the Work Programme 2018-2020 of the Horizon 2020 Strategy. For achieving this objective Hungary requests the Commission to support the cooperation among CEE countries both at political and technical level.
