The "Protect our rural areas!" (Together for heritage protection) aims to contribute to the preservation of the values associated with the countryside and the areas and communities of the EU capable of producing food.
Along with the V4 agricultural chambers, the National Chamber of Agrarian Economy (NAK) also supports the European citizens' initiative launched to preserve the values of the countryside, the NAK announced.
They wrote that nowadays the rural regions of the European Union are constantly losing part of their population, heritage, values, and traditions related to agriculture, for example, as a result of the anti-agrarianism incited by radical green organizations and a part of society. This could endanger EU agriculture and the safe food supply of its population.
The "Protect our rural areas!" (Together for heritage protection) aims to contribute to the preservation of the values associated with the countryside and the areas and communities of the EU capable of producing food.
The NAK and the Czech, Polish, and Slovak Chambers of Agriculture consider restoring the respect of those active in agriculture to be a priority task, so all four organizations joined the European citizens' initiative launched to protect the EU's rural heritage and food security, they said.
The goal of the European citizens' initiative is to collect one million signatures by November 1, 2023 at the latest in order to preserve the values associated with rural areas for future generations.
In at least seven member states, the number of supporting signatures must reach the minimum threshold required for the given member state, for example 14,805 signatures in Hungary.
In this case, the European Commission must make a decision on what measures it will use to help achieve the goals of the initiative, they said.
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