Rural Development in Slovakia before and after accession to EU Malvina Gondova Agency for Rural Deve

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Rural Development in Slovakia before and after
accession to EU Malvina GondovaAgency for
Rural Development
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Slovakia
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Slovakia

• No of areas (NUTS II) 4
• No of regions (NUTS III) 8
• No of districts (NUTS IV) 79
• No of towns and villages (NUTS V) 2891

• 5,4 milion of inhabitants
• Total area 49 034 km2
• Population density 110 inhabitants/km2

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SLOVAK AGRICULTURE

• Agrictultural land covers 2 436 879 ha of
  Slovakia, which is almost ½ of total area of
  Slovakia.There is 0,45 ha farm land and 0,28 ha
  arable land per head.
• Forest soil fund is 2 004 100 ha, which is 41 of
  total area of Slovakia. There is 0,37 ha of
  forests per head.
• Main arable crops
• Northern part
• Potatos, barley, foorage crops, oats, flax
• Southern part
• Cereals, sugarbeet, vine, tobacco, fruits
  and vegetable
• Eastern part
• Potatos, corn, sugarbeet
• Western part
• Cereals, vine, fruits and vegetable

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• Situation before 1989
• Due to creation of the large agricultural
  cooperatives loosing of the traditional bind to
  the land
• No private farms, no private business
• Moving of rural population to the towns due to
  the job opportunities in industry
• To adjust the village to the town loosing of
  traditions, pride
• System of central and vanishing villages

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• Before the accession to the EU (1994-2004)
• Small local initiatives (heritage, environment)
• Creation of the associations, unions of villages
  with the goal of implementation of the particular
  project (infrastructure, mainly gas supply lines
  for heating)
• Creation of the first micro-regions, based on
  PPP
• PHARE programme (since 1993) EU programme,
  institution building, infrastructure improvement,
  cross-border cooperation, support of private
  sector, regional development
• Support from US funds, Dutch government
• Very low support from Slovak government (MoA, MoE
  Village renewal programme)

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• Pre-accession period 2000-2004
• SAPARD programme
• Divided into two areas
• diversification activities in agricultural and
  forestry holdings (support of non-agricultural
  and non-forestry activities) oriented mainly to
  tourism activities
• support of villages for reconstruction of their
  infrastructure and buildings for non-profit
  activities
• Technical Assistance SAPARD project Testing the
  LEADER approach in 11 micro-regions
• Preparation for Leader method implementation,
  elaboration of the integrated development
  strategies for the micro-regions, bootom-up
  approach

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• After the accession to EU (2004-2006)
• Common Agriculture Policy
• 1st pillar
• farmers, landscape, environment, diversification
  of agricultural production
• 2nd pillar rural development
• Horizontal Plan for Rural Development with
  following priorities
• 1st - The development of sustainable rural
  economy To support economic activities which
  enable job creation and suitable economic
  conditions
• 2nd - Protection and improvement of rural
• environment, natural resources,
• to maintain and renewal of the countryside

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• After the accession to EU (2004-2006)
• Support from other funds
• Support from the ERDF, ESF ( infrastructure,
  social inclusion, reconstructions, planning
  documents)
• No LEADER (funds were decided to use for direct
  payment to farmers)

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• Current Programming period 2007-2013
• European Agrictultural Fund for Rural Development
  (EAFRD)
• Programme of Rural Development of the Slovak
  Republic 2007-2013
• Axis 3 Measures Village renewal and
  development, Diversification of Agricultural
  Activities, Support of Tourism Activities
• Individual applicants
• Small villages (infrastructure, reconstructions,
  public spaces)
• Measure Animation preparation of the local
  development strategy

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Rural Development in Slovakia

• Axis 4 LEADER
• Bottom-up approach
• Integrated strategy of area development
• Civic associations Local Action Groups (LAGs)
• Areas of 10 000-150 000 inhabitants
• Implementation of projects in accordance with the
  measures of Axis 3
• Cooperation projects
• LAG operation
• 2,6 mil / 1 LAG
• 2 rounds of LAGs selection 15 LAGs in first
  round (2009), 12 LAGs in second round (2010)

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AGENCY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

• Agency for rural development was established
  01.04.1995 by Decree of the Ministry of
  Agriculture. Agency is semi-budgeted, and
  non-profit organisation.
• Mission
• To collect, analyse, and disseminate information
  in rural development
• Consulting services to rural people for
• supporting the economic activities
• Project preparation trainings
• Information dissemination
• Educational activities, promotion
• of small rural businesses and
• micro-regions

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National rural development network (NRDN)

• Created according to the European Council
  Regulation 1698/2005
• The networks central office is integrated in
  structure of Agency of Rural Development since
  28.10.2008.
• 7 Regional coordinators to implement regional
  activities
• Activities of NRDN
• To collect, analyse, and disseminate information
• To monitor data in rural development
• To provide information of rural development
• To organise courses, seminars
• To prepare educational programmes
• To support national and multinational cooperation
• To create a contact point for activities of
  Leader
• To organise regular meetings of NRDN
• To provide feedback to control authorities and
  other state institutions

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Organisation structure of the National rural
Development Network in Slovakia
http//www.nsrv.sk
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• Malvina Gondova
• Agency for Rural Development
• Akademicka 4
• 949 01 Nitra
• Slovakia
• gondova_at_arvi.sk
• www.arvi.sk, www.nsrv.sk