This document has been adopted to fulfill the Commission’s obligation to elaborate a plan of action for biodiversity in agriculture. The Action Plan represents a tool to implement the European Community Biodiversity Strategy. Point 3.2 of the Plan sets forth priorities, including the following: (a) ensuring the development of current intensive farming practices towards the achievement of a reasonable or rational degree of intensification; (b) maintaining an economically viable and socially acceptable agricultural activity without any prejudice to biodiversity preservation; (c) utilization of the potential of agro-environmental measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; (d) ensuring that an ecological infrastructure exists throughout the area; (e) supporting specific measures related to the use of genetic resources, to the maintenance of local, traditional and rustic breeds and varieties and the diversity of varieties used in agriculture. Point 3.3 describes the principles to be favoured. Point 3.4 refers to Community agricultural instruments affecting biodiversity, the implementation of which must be pursued through this Plan. Point 4.1 is entirely devoted to horizontal and sectorial objectives to be attained, giving particular regard to the conservation and utilization of genetic resources. Four Annexes are attached. Annex I deals with the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) Guarantee Section allocation for Rural Development.