Rural development policy after 2013
in the EU and in Hungary –
challenges, strategy, tools
Made by Szilvia Bencze
Department of Rural Development
Ministry of Rural Development
[email protected]
Contents
1. Issues concerning rural development
2. CAP post 2013
3. Concept for Hungarian National Rural Strategy
4. National Rural Strategy in the context of the new CAP
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EU rural development policy –
today and after 2013
Why have an RD policy at EU level?
A policy…
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because rural areas face challenges which market forces alone will not solve
A common policy…
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because challenges do not start / end at national boundaries (climate
change!)
An EU policy…
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to address the particular characteristics of the EU situation
With a focus on added value!
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Rural areas are
extremely
varied
EU rural development policy –
today and after 2013
Some rural regions in
economic difficulties;
others show good
rates of growth /
employment
compared to urban
areas
No “typical rural
region” in terms of
growth and
employment:
different types of
“rurality”
determined by the
regional “mix of
functions” rather
than a single
economic activity
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Significant rural poverty at the
Eastern boundaries of EU
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EU rural development policy –
today and after 2013
RD policy in the current period
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The only integrated policy addressing all aspects of rural areas: economic,
environmental, social
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Clear objectives
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Pre-defined measures to guarantee targeted outcome and EU value added
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Delivery system: strategic approach, flexibility for MS
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Monitoring and evaluating system
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Key issues for after 2013
• Ongoing challenges facing rural areas
• Overarching goals of EU2020 – general policy context
• Links with other EU policies
• Structure
• Measures
• Delivery mechanisms
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Ongoing challenges facing rural areas
Socio-economic
challenges
Environmental
challenges
Territorial
challenges
• Income gaps
• GHG emissions
• Vitality of rural areas
• Price volatility, risk
management
• Soil depletion
• Diversity of EU
agriculture
• Under-developed
rural regions
• Habitats and
biodiversity
• Water/air quality
Food security, food safety
Synergies and co-ordination with: CAP first pillar, structural funds
Contribution to Europe 2020 strategy
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Europe 2020 and RD policy: clear common ground!
SMART growth:
INCLUSIVE growth:
• Supporting innovation and
skills, green technologies
and uptake of research
• Unlocking local potential,
diversifying rural
economies and developing
local markets and jobs
• Providing incentives for
social innovation
Rural development
• Opening up alternative
opportunities to
accompany agricultural
restructuring
SUSTAINABLE growth:
• Increasing resource efficiency and the provision of public goods
• Reducing GHG emissions, enhancing carbon sequestration and developing bioenergy
• Ensuring sustainable land management and addressing biodiversity loss
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CAP post 2013 – new focus
Rural
development
Rural
development
Market
measures
Market
measures
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Goals of the CAP post 2013
1. Viable food
production
2. Sustainable
management of
natural resources
3. Balanced territorial
development
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Possible scenarios for the CAP reform
1. Conservative – (enhanced status quo, current CAP with gradual
adjustments)
2. Prudent - (balanced reform of the CAP)
3. Radical - (rural development and agri-environmental focus)
EU
NRDS
Agricultural policy shall support competitiveness or the
social and environmental protection function of the
rural areas?
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Objectives and priorities for RD policy - overview
Long-term strategic objectives
Competitiveness
of agriculture
Sustainable
management of
natural resources
Balanced territorial
development
Interpreted in the light of Europe 2020:
smart, sustainable, inclusive growth
Operational priorities with:
•areas of intervention
•improved target indicators
All MS / regions
must address these
in their RD
programmes
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Getting our priorities right (1)
1. Knowledge transfer in agriculture and forestry
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(Cross-cutting priority)
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Human capital and smart networking in agriculture & forestry
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Innovation, knowledge base in agriculture & forestry
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Strengthening links between agriculture & forestry / research &
development
2. Competitiveness of agriculture, farm viability
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Restructuring of farms facing major structural problems
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Generational renewal in agricultural sector
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Getting our priorities right (2)
3. Food chain organisation, risk management in agriculture
• Integrating primary producers into food chain
• Supporting farm risk management
4. Preserving & enhancing ecosystems dependent on agriculture & forestry
With regard to:
• biodiversity / landscapes
• water management
• soil management
• carbon sequestration
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Getting our priorities right (3)
5. Resource efficiency & transition to low-carbon economy in agri-food and
forestry sectors
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With a focus on water & energy
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Production of (feedstocks for) renewable energy in ag & forestry
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Cutting nitrous oxide & methane emissions from agriculture
6. Realising jobs potential & development of rural areas
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Diversification & job creation
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Social inclusion & poverty reduction
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Local development in rural areas
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How should the elements fit together?
Common Strategic Framework (CSF) – reflecting Europe 2020
National frameworks – reflecting CSF
RD policy
Other EU policies (cohesion policy, fisheries)
RD programmes:
Objectives / priorities
Targets
Sets of measures
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What measures will be needed?
Current measures
(2007-2013)
Streamline
measure
menu
Adjust conditions,
scope
New measures?
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Measures – some key areas (1)
Knowledge transfer
• Vocational training, advisory services, demonstrations of new
technologies
Co-operation: technological
• Development / application of technology, techniques, products
Co-operation: economic
• E.g. short supply chains, sharing of resources
Co-operation: environmental
• Collective action for better results (e.g. larger areas, bigger projects)
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Measures – some key areas (2)
Business development
• Including young farmers
Risk management
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New toolkit of measures
Leader
• Strengthen bottom-up and strategy
• Open up for joint action with other funds
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Delivery mechanisms: key elements
• Strengthening strategic approach and ex-ante evaluation
• Quantified target levels against common indicators (“target
indicators”) for each of the priorities
• Abolition of the axis system
• Measures used: more flexibly in combination
• Harmonise rules with other funds
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CAP after 2013 – timetable
Public
consultation
Conference
Communication on
CAP
after 2013
2011 (n-3)
Publication
of legal
proposals
Negotiations
begin with
EP, Council
2012 (n-2)
2013 (n-1)
Negotiations
with EP and
Council over
legal
proposals
Drafting of
programmes
2014 (n)
Implementation of the
new policy
2010 (n-4)
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The role of the CAP Communication within the
decision making process
• First official statement from the Commission
• Requires official response from the MSs
• It ensures great room for maneuvering in the main issues
• Opportunity for arranging national standpoints
• Pronouncing Presidency Conclusions
•  COM takes it into account when drafting the new subsidy
regulations for the next budgetary period, expected for 2011
autumn
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Main elements of the Presidency Conclusions
Majority of the MSs accept and comfortable with the objectives
defined by the COM
1.Viable food production:
Improving the incomes and competitiveness of the agricultural sector, sufficient,
safe, good quality food production for affordable prices;
2. Sustainable management of natural resources:
Encouraging and paying for public goods produced by agriculture, efficient use of
natural resources with respect to environmental protection requirements;
3. Balanced territorial development:
Maintaining rural communities and jobs, promoting economic growth of rural areas
throughout whole Europe
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Main content elements of the Presidency
Conclusions
• Management/regulation of agriculture and rural development shall
be strongly linked in the future too
• Strong and two-pillar CAP is needed
Pillar I
•Greener
•More equitable
Pillar II
•Increasing competitiveness
•Promoting innovation
•Counting with environmental protection
and fight against climate change
CAP needs to be further simplified (rationalising the interactions
between farmers and authority)
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Presidency conclusions with regard to rural
development
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Important policy, must remain robust;
Strong rural development policy is essential with regard to competitiveness and
sustainability  important to strengthen synergy with related EU policies;
Pressure of generational replacement => young farmers and new entrants;
Infrastructure development, knowledge enhancement;
Improving direct sales, encouraging production for local market;
Agri-environmental management is successful, shall remain;
Innovation is a central element : CAP relies on it and fosters it at the same time;
Climate change: agriculture has a key role in mitigating the process and also in
adaptation;
Programming: the framework should not be more complicated, and MSs should
be allowed to flexibly apply the rules taking into account national characteristics;
Aiming at synergy: with the EU regional and cohesion policy
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Concept for National Rural Strategy – 2020
Agricultural-,
Food-,
Environmental-,
RURAL STRATEGY
„For the rise of the countryside and for sustainable
agriculture”
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Interdependence among environment, agriculture and the countryside
Environmetnal
endowments
Farming method, intensity
Environmental safety
Environmental quality
Product quality
Food safety
Employment
Social security
Standard of living
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Paradigm-shift
• Rural policy instead of agricultural policy
• Dominance of family farms instead of large scale farming
• Landscape management instead of harmful monoculture
Agriculture shall be entitled to EU funds only if it undertakes
environmental, social and employment (so-called eco-social)
tasks apart from production.
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Strategic principles
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Strong eco-socialist state
Common goods and equitable distribution
System approach
Building on local economy and network type cooperation
Involvement of local communities in development
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Strategic objectives
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Retaining, increasing rural jobs
Retaining rural population, stabilising demographic balance
Guaranteeing food safety and security, overcoming defencelessness
Increasing viability of agri-food sector, improving our market position,
balancing the ratio between crop production and animal husbandry
Protecting drinking water systems, conserving water resources, soil,
natural habitats and landscape, increasing environmental safety
Energy supply relying also on local resources and systems, energy
security, overcoming defencelessness
Improving rural quality of life, providing more a vidéki gazdaság több lábra
állítása
Re-establishing the strong linkage between town and surrounding
countryside
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Strategic areas and tasks
1. Protection of natural values, sustainable management of
natural resources and landscape
2. Rural environmental quality
3. Land policy
4. Sustainable agricultural structure and production policy
5. Increasing value-added, safe food supply, safe market
6. Development of local economy
7. Rural intellectual and physical infrastructure, viable rural
settlements, local communities
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Consistency between NRS objectives and the
future CAP
1. Viable food production
• Guaranteeing food safety and security, overcoming defencelessness
• Increasing viability of agri-food sector, improving our market position, balancing
the ratio between crop production and animal husbandry
2. Sustainable management of natural resources
• Protecting drinking water systems, conserving water resources, soil, natural
habitats and landscape, increasing environmental safety
3. Balanced territorial development
• Retaining, increasing rural jobs
• Retaining rural population, stabilising demographic balance
• Energy supply relying also on local resources and systems, energy security,
overcoming defencelessness
• Improving rural quality of life, providing more a vidéki gazdaság több lábra állítása
• Re-establishing the strong linkage between town and surrounding countryside
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Consistency between strategic areas and the future
CAP
1. Viable food production
• Land policy
• Sustainable agricultural structure and production policy
• Increasing value-added, safe food supply, safe market
2. Sustainable management of natural resources
• Protection of natural values, sustainable management of natural resources
and landscape
• Rural environmental quality
3. Balanced territorial development
• Development of local economy
• Rural intellectual and physical infrastructure, viable rural settlements, local
communities
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Strategic programmes in line with the CAP
Viable food production
• Programme of land and reparcelling
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• Programme of shifting land use, farming
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method, landscape management
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• Ecological farming programme
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• Landscape management programme for
flood-basins
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• „Garden-Hungary” horticultural programme
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• Animal husbandry improvement
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programme
• Gene and biological conservation
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programme
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• Fishery programme
• Wildlife management programme
• Agricultural marketing, domestic and
external programme
Local, regional food processing programme
National and international food processing
programme
Controlled food chain programme
Conscious consumer and customer
programme
Hungarikum programme
Healthy mass catering programme
Local food processing, local market and food
supply programme
Local cooperatives, local money programmes
Education, training, environmental education
Adult learning and technical consultancy in
agriculture
• Programme for infrastructure reconstruction
in R&D
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Strategic programmes in line with the CAP
Sustainable management of natural resources :
• Soil conservation
programme
• Protection and
reconstruction of natural
values, areas, ecosystem
services
• Programme for protection
of water resources and
water quality
• Spatial water management
programme
• Drinking water programme
• Structural change in land use,
landscape management
programme
• Management programmes of
protected and vulnerable natural
areas (MTÉT, Natura )
• Native animal husbandry based
on grass programme
• National forest programme
• Education, training,
environmental education
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Strategic programmes in line with the CAP
Balanced territorial development :
• Local food processing, local market and food supply
programme
•Social landprogramme, career model for young farmers
• „Garden-Hungary” horticultural programme
• Local, regional food processing programme
• Conscious consumer and customer programme
• Healthy mass catering programme
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For further information
•http://www.kormany.hu/en/ministry-of-rural-development
•CAP Health Check
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/healthcheck/index_en.htm
•EU agriculture and CAP reform
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/index_en.htm
•EU rural development policy 2007-2013
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/rurdev/index_en.htm
•Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/analysis/perspec/index_en.htm
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Szilvia Bencze
Department of Rural Development
Ministry of Rural Development
[email protected]
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