Transcript Mobilisation of resources in the Baltic Sea Region, Rural

Mobilisation of resources
in the Baltic Sea Region
(rural development)
Jüri Rute
Geographical Desk Officer
DG Agriculture and Rural Development
Resources
• People
• Co-operation
culture
• Funds
The conditions
for the EU Strategy
for the Baltic Sea
Region were
gradually developed
during 20(+) years
Baltic Development Forum
Summit 2010, Vilnius 1-2 June
Financial resources
No new resources, better targeting of existing ones:
• Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013
– ERDF 208 M€, European Neighbourhood & Partnership Instrument
(ENPI) ca 22,6 M€, Norwegian Funds 6 M€
• Cross-border cooperation programmes (ERDF) + Transnational
• Inter-regional cooperation programme (INTERREG IVC)
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European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion (ESPON)
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7th framework programme for research
Competitiveness and innovation framework programme (CIP)
National regional development programmes, e.g. European Social Fund
Rural development programmes
• National funds – example – Baltic Marine Environment Protection
Commission (HelCom), Ministerial Conference next week in Moscow
• Private funds
Agriculture as a priority area
The Action Plan has 15 priority areas
• EU Common Agricultural Policy issues are mainly in
Priority area № 9 agriculture / forestry / fisheries
• Ownership of the Priority Areas –
Finland is responsible for the priority area
Coordinator Mr. Jouni Lind, State Secretary (chair)
Ministry of Agriculture/Forestry, www.mmm.fi/balticsea
+ Sweden : coordinator for fisheries
+ Lithuania : coordinator for rural development
Agriculture as a priority area …
The following flagship projects have been developed so far:
• “Establish a Forum for Inventive and Sustainable
Manure Processing” by the exchange of information on
how to process manure in sustainable ways;
• “Create a network on the implementation of EU food
and feed legislation” to exchange information on best
practises for food and feed control;
• Projects related to forestry and wood mobilisation are
to be added to the list of flagship projects soon, with
formal approval of a change to the Action Plan.
• “Sustainable rural development” with emphasis on
innovation and rural youth (to enhance youth
participation in the life of rural communities and help
young people to start entrepreneurship)
Agricultural projects in other priority areas
1. Nutrient reduction
• “Putting best practices in agriculture into
work”
Example activities:
– National demonstration farms,
– A network of demonstration farms around the
Baltic Sea + a catalogue of such farms (booklet /
online),
– Internet-based multi-lingual “virtual” demonstration
farms…
Agricultural projects in other priority areas
12. Attractiveness of the Baltic Sea Region through
education, tourism and health
• “Attract tourists to rural areas especially the
coastal ones” by
- promoting joint environmentally-friendly rural / coastal
tourism packages (e.g. farm, food tourism, hiking, winter
sports, nature tourism),
- co-operating in planning rural and coastal tourism
investments.
(Lead: Rural Development Networks + Leader networks +
the European RD Network)
Rural Development Programmes
• Common RDP activities and, perhaps, measures
throughout the macro-region?
– Joint EC/MS-s seminar in 2011 (Helsinki) to discuss
the ideas
• Co-operation of the Rural Development
Networks
– Establishment of the Rural Development Network of
the Baltic Sea Region
– Common projects with joint financing
“Sustainable rural development” was developed by
the Nordic/Baltic Networks (coord. Sweden / Poland)
Work mainly through LAGs with trans-national
cooperation funding
Rural development programming
Member States may consider to:
• Reflect objectives of the Strategy in their Rural
Development Programmes.
• Take the Strategy into account in allocation of Rural
Development funding (projects benefiting the macroregion, if coherent with the rural development objectives).
• Discuss the Strategy implementation at annual meetings
with the Commission + info in Annual Reports.
• Use the Strategy as a reference in the preparation of the
2014-2020 programmes (streamlining of the measures in
the macro-region, joint studies and monitoring).
Thank you!