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Kees de Ruiter Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food QualityDepartment of Rural Areas30 November 2005
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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.
The (man-made) Dutch peri-urban countryside…
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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, LFA’s, 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 merely10% of the total budget
spent on rural policy policy in the Netherlands
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Agenda for a living countryside&
Choose for agriculture
• territorial planning
• farmers
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Multi-annual program
• National program with objectives and euro’s
• 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