PowerPoint-presentatie

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Kees de Ruiter Dutch Ministry of Agriculture,
Nature and Food Quality Department of Rural
Areas 30 November 2005
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The (man-made) Dutch peri-urban countryside

• Densely populated 479 inhabitants per km2. More
  than half of the population lives in urban areas.
  
• No economic or social need for a specific rural
  development policy most rural areas perform
  economically as well as urban regions.
• Problems in rural areas are often related to the
  (decreasing) quality of the landscape, nature and
  the environment.

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The National Strategy for Rural Development

• A balanced set of priorities based on the Dutch
  situation
• support for transition of agriculture, esp. for
  innovation,
• land consolidation, LFAs, environmental
  protection
• maintain and enhance values of nature, landscape
  and cultural heritage
• development of a sustainable rural economy, with
  eye for the social fabric and viability

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Synergy of funds

• Structural Funds some specific regions
• Leisure areas nearby cities
• Agrifood complex
• Natura 2000
• Reconstruction of larger rural areas
• EAFRD all rural areas
• Focused on the farmer
• Local scale
• Wide range of measures

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• EU-cofinancing is merely
• 10 of the total budget
• spent on rural policy
• policy in the Netherlands

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Agenda for a living countrysideChoose for
agriculture

• territorial planning
• farmers

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Multi-annual program

• National program with objectives and euros
• 12 contracts for 7 years
• Yearly registration on output
• Yearly monitoring of outcome
• Continuous dialogue

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New way of implementing rural policy

• Decentralisation of responsibilities and money
• For all the policy subjects in rural areas
• Simpler and more flexible
• Space
• Time

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The role of the provinces

• Director
• Tailormade solutions
• Mediator
• Bottom-up approach

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Investmentbudget a new start

• What can go wrong?
• - confidence
• - Brussels?
• - slow-speed
• - procedures
• - confidence

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Simple, clear and lots of common sense