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EU rural development policy

Axis 1

Rural Development

Community Strategic Guidelines 2007-

The CSG will help to:

• identify and agree the areas where the use of EU support for rural development will create the most value added at EU level;
• make the link with the main EU priorities (Lisbon, Göteborg) and translate them into RD policy;
• ensure consistency with other EU policies, in particular in the field of cohesion and environment;
• accompany the implementation of the new market oriented Common Agricultural Policy and the necessary restructuring it will entail in the old and the new Member States.

Community priorities

• Axis 1: improving the competitiveness of the agricultural and forestry sectors
• Guideline 1: the resources devoted to axis 1 should contribute to a strong and dynamic European agrifood sector by focusing on the priorities of knowledge transfer, modernisation and innovation in the food chain and priority sectors for investment in physical and human capital.

Community priorities

• Axis 3: improving the quality of life in rural areas and encouraging diversification
• Guideline 3: the resources devoted to axis 3 should contribute to the overarching priority of the creation of employment opportunities in the fields of diversification and quality of life.

Community priorities

• Axis 4 (Leader): building local capacity for employment and diversification
• Guideline 4: the resources devoted to axis 4 should contribute to the priorities of axis 1 and 2 and in particular of axis 3, but also play an important role in the priority of improving governance and mobilising the endogenous development potential of rural areas.

Community priorities

• Horizontal: complementarity between

Community instruments

• Guideline 6:  create synergies between structural, employment and rural development policies  ensure complementarity and coherence between actions to be financed by the ERDF, Cohesion Fund, ESF, EFF and EAFRD on a given territory and in a given field of activity.  the main guiding principles as regards the demarcation line and the coordination mechanisms between actions supported by the different Funds should be defined at the level of national strategic reference framework/national strategy plan.

CSG NSP

Internal consistency/other EU level strategies

Complementarity with other Community instruments

EU priorities:

• Knowledge transfer/priority investment sectors
• Biodiversity/water/climate change
• Creation employment opportunities
• Governance/endogenous development potential

• National priorities

Strategic issues axis 1

• Desired development farm structures (which

farms to target)

• Strengths/weaknesses agrifood sector
• Balance between restructuring and innovation

Strategic issues axis 2

• Balance between AE, Natura and LFA
• AE: role organic farming (link axis 1),

importance certain farming types and

landscapes for rural diversification (link axis

• Water management
• Afforestation needs (abandoned farm

land?)

National Strategy

• Supporting the restructuring of the agricultural sector
• Improving integration in the food chain
• Developing business skills
• Developing new outlets for agricultural and forestry products
• Developing high quality products in line with market demand
• (^) Improving the environmental performance of farms and forestry

Based on an assessment of the general situation of the agricultural and forestry sector the MS will set out how it will deal with and set quantified objectives for key issues such as:

Rural Development Programme

In its RDP the MS will set out:

• How much it plans to spend on axis 1 (minimum 10% of the Community contribution to the programme)
• Which measures it wishes to implement and how they fit to the strategy
• An indicative breakdown of funding per measure

Axis 1: Improving Competitiveness

2. Measures aimed at restructuring physical

potential and promoting innovation :

farm modernisation,

improving the economic value of forests,

processing and marketing of agricultural and

forestry

products,

improving and developing of infrastructure,

natural disasters and prevention actions.

Axis 1: Improving Competitiveness (3)

3.Measures aimed at improving the quality

of agricultural production and products:

adaptation to new EU standards,

participation in food quality schemes,

promotion for quality products.