Mobilisation of resources in the Baltic Sea Region (rural development)

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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-operationculture
• Funds

The conditions for the EU Strategy for the
Baltic Sea Region were gradually
developed during 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

• 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 financingSustainable
  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).
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  Thank you!