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Mobilisation of resources in the Baltic Sea Region
(rural development)
Jüri Rute
Geographical Desk Officer DG Agriculture and Rural Development
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Resources
• People• Co-operation
culture• Funds
The conditions for the EU Strategy for the Baltic SeaRegion were gradually developedduring 20(+) years
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Baltic Development Forum
Summit 2010, Vilnius 1-2 June
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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)• European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion (ESPON) • 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
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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
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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)
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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…
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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)
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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
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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 macro-region, 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!