The Rural Development Programme 20072013 for the Netherlands

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The Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 for the
Netherlands

• RDP2Ilse Oppedijk Managing Office for the RDP

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Main features (1)

• One national programme for the entire territory
  of the Netherlands.
• EU-budget 486 million
• Objective to improve the competitive capacity of
  agriculture and the quality of rural areas.

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Main features (2)

• The programme is built around 4 priority axes
• improving the competitiveness of agriculture and
  forestry
• improving the environment and rural areas
• improving the quality of life in rural areas and
  diversification of the rural economy
• implementation of the LEADER approach.
• The programme contains 24 measures that can be
  cofinanced from the European Agricultural Fund
  for Rural Development (EAFRD)

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Main features (3)

• National and regional authorities worked closely
  together writing the programme.
• The programme is to be implemented along 2 lines
• Measures under axis 1 (except 125) run in tandem
  with the subsidies scheme of the Ministry of
  Agriculture.
• Most of the measures under axes 2-4 are area
  specific and will be carried out by provincial
  authorities

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Main features (4)

• Measures under axes 3 and 4 can only be used in
  non-urban areas (cities lt 30.000 inhabitants).
• Regional differentiation every province can
  decide for itself which measures to use in axes 3
  and 4.
• The programme was approved on July 20 2007.

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Finance (1)
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Finance (2)
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Finance (3)
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Finance (4)
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Axis 1

• Main targets
• A strong and dynamic agrofood sector
• Priority for increasing human and physical
  capital by knowledge transfer and innovation
• Target group
• Farmers

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Axis 1 measures
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Axis 1 measures (2)
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Axis 2 Main targets

• Main targets
• Halting the decline of biodiversity
• Improvement of environmental and water conditions
• Preservation and improvement of valuable man-made
  landscapes
• Climate

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Axis 2 measures
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Axis 2 target groups

• Target groups
• farmers
• landscape organisations
• private land managent parties
• and in some cases also water boards

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Axis 3 main targets

• Diversification of the rural economy
• Improving the quality of rural life
• More job opportunities
• Stimulating enterprise, cooperation and the
  formation of networks
• Education, recruitement and dynamism of rural
  communities

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Axis 3 measures (1)
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Axis 3 measures (2)
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Axis 3 target groups

• The measures under axis 3 are directed to a
• variety of groups. It may involve
• small businesses
• members of agrarian families
• public authorities
• natural or legal persons
• participants in an area group.

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Axis 4

• Main targets
• Mobilising endogenous development potential of
  rural areas
• Bottom-up and innovative approach
• Plans involving different sectors of the local
  economy
• Target group
• Leader groups.

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Axis 4 measures
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Leader in Holland

• In the Netherlands 31 Leader groups
• These cover 50 of the area of the country and
  12 of the population.

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Measure 511

• The Netherlands wants to use European cofinancing
  for
• technical assistance for setting up and operating
  the National Rural Network
• evaluation activities
• the implementation of communication plans.

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The end

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