Brussels, 29/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - At its plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament will have a debate on 6 September on the own-initiative report by Michl Ebner (Italian, EPP-ED) that turns to the implementation of Community legislation relating to mountain farming (Leader and Interreg programmes, since 1991, as well as 1975 Directive on compensatory payments to stem the exodus of the populations of these areas). The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, which...