Translation of "Benachteiligten gebiet" in English

On the one hand, we make an effort — I do not dismiss this as social policy — to help the disadvantaged regions and small farms.

East Germany is becoming a disadvantaged region.

However, all farming land in Luxembourg is "less-favoured".

In concrete terms, this means that for instance in Austria 150 000 businesses are in a disadvantaged area.

In the case of support for a holding in a less-favoured area, this must be indicated here.

Thus, the aid had to be regarded as investment aid to a healthy company investing in a depressed area.

Therefore the definition of a producer in a less-favoured area should be amended.

A new set of goal posts will also be installed on a football pitch in a disadvantaged area in the country.

Moreover, the Social Democrats refuse to support a policy in the future which still gives the same entitlement to aid to the country millionaire - who, by massive rationalisation, has almost made his well-situated holding into a one-man business, and by having the best access to world markets secures the best prices - as to a farmer in a less-favoured area, who often enough can only hold his own by going short himself.

It is unacceptable to see a farmer in a rural area who earns millions, who has turned his well-situated farm into virtually a one-man business thanks to massive rationalisation, who has the best contacts with the world market and obtains the best prices on it, still being just as eligible for aid as a farmer in a disadvantaged area, who can often only survive by overworking.

Let us not move now with the measure such as that of olive oil to create more unemployment in areas where there are already serious problems.

I regret therefore that I cannot give Mr Cunha's report my unconditional support, because the proposed solution of partial decoupling would place a considerable burden on the existence of multifunctional agriculture in the less-favoured region of Luxembourg, with very familiar economic, social and environmental consequences.

In particular, it does not allow the use of documents detailing costs that emerged several years after the relevant investment/location decision was taken.

The risk of social exclusion is influenced by other factors, such as discrimination and ethnic background, low quality/low income work, family break-ups, drug abuse and alcoholism, and lack of access to minimal conditions in terms of housing or health care and living in a deprived area.

Secondly, investments by large undertakings can produce economies of scale that reduce location-specific initial costs and, in many respects, are not tied to the region in which the investment takes place.

The maximum amount of aid granted to an individual enterprise must not exceed EUR 400000 over any period of three fiscal years, or EUR 500000 if the enterprise is situated in a less favoured area or in an area referred to in Article 36(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, as designated by Member States in accordance with Articles 50 and 94 of that Regulation.