5-768: The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development ( DG AGRI ) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission . The DG AGRI is responsible for the European Union policy area of agriculture and rural development. The work of the DG AGRI is closely linked with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The Director-General (since April 2020) is Wolfgang Burtscher , with Michael Scannell serving as Deputy DG. The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development in
10-405: A forestry agency is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Directorate-General Within the European Union (EU), Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility. Within the European Commission specifically, Directorates-General are the equivalent of national-level ministries . Most are headed by a European Commissioner , responsible for
15-673: The European Patent Organisation , separate from the EU) also has Directorates-General , which are administrative groupings of departments. The Directorates-General of the European Commission are divided into four groups: Policy DGs, External relations DGs, General Service DGs and Internal Service DGs. Internally, the DGs are referred to by their abbreviations , provided below. In addition to its Legal Service ,
20-785: The von der Leyen Commission is Janusz Wojciechowski , who took office in December 2019. Its address is 130 Rue de la Loi, Brussels. In 2020 it had 851 employees. The mission statement of DG Agri is closely linked to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The DG's current concrete concerns include [1] : The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has a staff of about 1000 people. The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development have been The DG AGRI encompasses 12 Directorates, all headquartered in Brussels : This article about
25-958: The general direction of the Directorate-General, and in charge of (politically responsible for) the corresponding policy area; and a director-general, responsible for the management of day-to-day affairs, who reports to the European Commissioner. Nearly all of the top-level organisational divisions of the Secretariat of the European Parliament and the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union are also termed Directorates-General. The European Patent Office (part of
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