ECONOMICS|regions and regional policy · SCIENCE|natural and applied sciences|earth sciences · AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES|agricultural policy
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- mountain area | mountainous area
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- Definition inclined, high-altitude area, characterised by a considerable limitation of the possibilities for using the land and an appreciable increase in the cost of working it Reference "COM-EN, based on:Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations CELEX:31999R1257/EN"
- Comment "These limitations are due:- to the existence, because of altitude, of very difficult climatic conditions, the effect of which is substantially to shorten the growing season,- at a lower altitude, to the presence over the greater part of the area in question of slopes too steep for the use of machinery or requiring the use of very expensive special equipment, or- to a combination of these two factors, where the handicap resulting from each taken separately is less acute but the combination of the two gives rise to an equivalent handicap.Areas north of the 62nd Parallel and certain adjacent areas shall be treated in the same way as mountain areas.More information: European Commission > Regional policy > A to Z http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/glossary/mountain_areas_en.htm [03.03.2011]"