The Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) of the European Committee of the Regions has elected Ulrika Landergren (SE/RE), Councillor in the Swedish municipality of Kungsbacka as its new Chair. Rural development, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), fisheries, forestry, food production and public health are amongst the key topics on the NAT agenda for this new mandate.

Regional and local leaders delivered theirproposals on how to strengthen territorialdimension in a wider range of policy fields and howto increase the involvement of local actors indelivering EU co-funded investment plan, during the136th European Committee of the Regions (CoR)Plenary that took place on 7-9 October in Brussels.In the opinion on "The CoR's contribution to the renewed Territorial Agenda, with specialemphasis on community-led local development(CLLD)", drafted by Radim Sršeň (CS/EPP), RegionalCouncillor of Olomouc, they call for more bottom-upterritorial visions and for increasing the share offunding for CLLD.