Download or read book The Impact of Structural Funds of the European Union on Agricultural and Rural Development in the First Years of Membership written by Janusz Rowiński and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a part of the research topic "The impact of structural funds of the European Union on rural development in the first years of membership. The general concept of supporting this development from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013" (Wpływ funduszy strukturalnych Unii Europejskiej na rozwój regionów wiejskich w pierwszych latach członkostwa. Ogólna koncepcja wsparcia tego rozwoju w latach 2007?2013 środkami funduszy strukturalnych i funduszu kohezji) in the following tasks:"The analysis of the implementation and effects of PROW 2004-2006 and of the Sectoral Operational Programme Agriculture" (Analiza przebiegu realizacji i skutków programów PROW 2004-2006 i Sektorowego Programu Operacyjnego Rolnictwo)."The concept of supporting rural development from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013" (Koncepcja wsparcia w latach 2007-2013 rozwoju regionów wiejskich środkami funduszy strukturalnych i funduszu kohezji).

Download or read book Technical Assistance written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technical assistance traditionally means the provision of expertise and funding to support government departments in the implementation of policy. In this audit, the Court examined how EU spending on technical assistance was used in the area of agriculture and rural development during 2007-13. It found that there has been a move away from a 'capacity-building' understanding of technical assistance towards support for regular administrative costs. For this reason, and because of the absence of a suitable performance framework, neither the Commission nor the Member States are able to demonstrate how well technical assistance has contributed to the impact of the CAP." -- Back cover.

Download or read book Rural Development written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact of European Union Membership on Agriculture and Rural Development in Newly Acceded Member States written by Schuman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Challenge of Rural Development in the EU Accession Countries written by Csaba Csáki and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Abstract: This volume examines the reforms and policy changes necessary in the rural sectors or the ten countries that have started the accession process for eventual membership in the European Union (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia). The papers in this volume are selected from the presentations at the Third World Bank/FAO EU Accession Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 17-20, 2000, and are organized around four topics: (i) defining the concepts of rural development-options for EU accession candidate countries; (ii) rural development in the European Union; (iii) rural development in Central and Eastern Europe; and (iv) international experiences and the role of international organizations in supporting rural development in the EU accession candidate countries. This volume is intended for agricultural policy makers and government officials in the candidate countries, EU officials, World Bank and FAO staff, development scholars, and all others interested in the process of rural development in Central and Eastern Europe.

Download or read book Rural Development written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cost effectiveness of EU Rural Development Support for Non productive Investments in Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Non-productive investments (NPIs) are investments which do not generate significant return, income, or revenue, or increase significantly the value of the beneficiary's holding, but have a positive environmental impact. Public support for NPIs is provided by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and national co-financing. This public support often reaches 100% of the total investment costs. The Court concludes that NPI support has contributed to the achievement of objectives linked to the sustainable use of agricultural land, but in a way that was not cost effective. This was because the costs of 75% of the visited projects were unreasonably high. Furthermore, even though many of these projects had obvious remunerative characteristics, they were fully funded with public money. The Court makes five recommendations aimed at improving the cost-effectiveness of NPIs that will be funded during the 2014-2020 programming period."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Outlook on the common agricultural policy of the European Union written by Christian Manthe and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: The focus of the thesis is the Direct Payments Systems of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union as introduced as part of the MacSharry reform and extended under the Agenda 2000. The objective is to analyse the current system and the proposals made by the Commission in January 2003 regarding a decoupling of these payments. The Common Agricultural Policy was one of the first policies developed in the European Union, and one of those regulated in the greatest detail. Among the European Union's policies, the CAP is regarded as one of the most important policy areas. This is justified not only because of its share of the EU budget, the vast number of people and the extent of the territory directly affected, but also because of its symbolic significance and the extent of sovereignty transferred from the national to the European level. The significance of the CAP, nowadays, is also portrayed by the fact that it is directly related to the Single Market and the EMU, two key areas in achieving the European integration. The objective of the CAP was to support the agricultural sector in the Member States. The second chapter of this thesis will provide general legal background information on the institutions of the EU and the functioning of the decision-making processes with regards to the agricultural sector. The history of the CAP, it s functioning, the reasons for its creation and some general information will be outlined in chapter 3. Special emphasis will be on the common market organisations, the second pillar of the CAP, the rural development policy and the system of Direct Payments. The history will also cover the Agenda 2000, the Mid-term review and especially the latest reform proposals of the EU in January 2003. The proposals with regard to the Direct Payments, such as the decoupling and the modulation, will be subject to a closer analysis in chapter 7. The chapter 4 covers the EU enlargement and gives an overview of the new challenges arising by that for the EU. Even though the consequences of the enlargement are significant in some areas of the CAP, this thesis will not provide a closer analysis of all the dimensions. The topic of the EU enlargement itself is too extensive to be covered by a single chapter. The focus of this thesis is on the Direct Payment system of the CAP and thus the consequences of EU enlargement will only be portrayed on this background. Chapter 6 provides a short evaluation of [...]

Download or read book EU Agricultural Law written by Jens Hartig Danielsen and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union‘s common agricultural policy is without question the most economically significant policy area in EU law, as well as the area in which Union regulation has been implemented most consistently and intensely. This book contends that today, considering this comprehensive regulation of issues that are of prime economic importance – and the rich case law that this EU policy has generated – EU agricultural law cannot be treated as an isolated discipline, but must be seen in the context of general Union law. The author first deeply explores in an unprecedented way what is meant by the expressions ‘agriculture’, ‘agricultural activity’, and ‘agricultural producer’ found in current EU legislation, and goes on to provide a detailed legal analysis in contexts from Member States to the World Trade Organization. In the course of the presentation he examines the following, among much else: the principle of unified markets or common prices; structural funds for promoting regional agricultural development; encouragement of local strategies based on partnership and experience-sharing networks; environmentally friendly agricultural measures; the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); whether a person or undertaking produces agricultural products or processes them; food safety measures; animal welfare; agricultural training and research; ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community; interventions concerning storage or production limitation; State aid schemes; marketing standards; geographical indications; trade with third countries; support for improving the environment and the countryside; payment of aid pursuant to the single payment scheme; and WTO rules on domestic support measures, import duties and restrictions, and exports. As a full-length, in-depth analysis of EU agricultural law, this book has no peers. It is sure to be welcomed not only by legal academics, but by all who are professionally engaged in dealing with issues of Union agricultural law, whether lawyers, professional interest groups, or administrative authorities.

Download or read book Transforming Masculine Rule written by Elisabeth Prügl and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European agricultural policy has the potential to restructure gender relations

Download or read book EU Support for Rural Infrastructure written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The review of the less favoured areas scheme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report, 'The Review of the Less Favoured Areas Scheme (HL Paper 98)', the European Union Committee calls for the swift adoption of reforms to the EU Less Favoured Areas (LFA) scheme, a method of distributing EU agricultural funding to disadvantaged areas where farming land might otherwise be abandoned. The report stresses that the justification for the LFA scheme is to maintain farming in marginal areas where farming activity generates benefits for the environment and landscape, rather than to compensate for regional economic hardship.

Download or read book Financial Management in the European Union written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarises the results of the European Court of Auditors' examination of the European Union's accounts for 2007 and progress on the range of initiatives taken forward by the Commission and Member States. For the first time the Court provided a positive Statement of Assurance, without qualification, on the reliability of the Commission's accounts, in effect confirming that they give a true and fair view. But for the fourteenth successive year the Court did not provide a positive Statement of Assurance on whether the underlying transactions conformed to applicable laws and regulations. Cohesion Policy funds, which are designed to reduce disparities in the level of development between regions and Member States, for example by supporting major infrastructure projects, remain the most challenging component. Based on its audit work, the Court estimates that, for expenditure on Cohesion projects, at least 11 per cent should not have been reimbursed by the Commission in 2007. This conclusion reflects weakness in controls at Member State level, but also the difficulty of implementing complex programmes. In the Cohesion Policy area the Commission has increased the rate at which it recovers incorrect payments from Member States, from 287 million euros in 2007 to 843 million in September 2008, and it predicts that further corrections will be finalised in Spring 2009. Financial corrections in future years could have an impact on the United Kingdom.

Download or read book The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development written by European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure looks at how resource efficiency is being supported in rural Europe. Resource efficiency means using natural resources in a sustainable way. It also means minimising the impact of human activities on the environment. The concept of resource efficiency is encapsulated in the idea of ‘doing more with less’. The examples highlighted in this edition focus on water and soil, two especially relevant resources for agriculture and rural development. Managing soils and water more efficiently is a strategic priority for Europe. Through the EU’s contribution to international accords such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and through high‐profile initiatives, such as Europe 2020 – the growth strategy that aims to make the EU a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy – a shift towards sustainable growth via a resource-efficient, low‐carbon economy is taking place. Europe is transitioning from a traditional economy where resources are simply extracted, used and thrown away to one where resources are used more carefully and recycled so they stay in use for longer. The need for a more efficient use of resources and waste minimisation is at the heart of this approach. In the specific context of rural development, the need for resource efficiency was reinforced by the Cork 2.0 Declaration and again by the recent European Commission Communication on the Future of Food and Farming, which says that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should lead a transition towards a more sustainable agriculture. An ENRD Thematic Group recently examined how resource efficiency is practised in rural areas. In limiting the scope of its work to soil and water management, the group identified how the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) can be shaped to make change happen faster. Building on that work, this edition of the EAFRD Project Brochure profiles inspiring rural development projects that are already improving resource efficiency all around rural Europe.

Download or read book The Future of Young Farmers in the European Union written by and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an analysis of the current situation of young farmers within the European Union and in six 'first wave' candidate countries for EU membership. It describes the problems faced by young farmers at present. The description is based on statistics, and on opinion researched from a wide number of sources at EU and national level. Emphasis is put on actions that have been taken at EU level since this is the focus of the European Parliament's interest. The study attempts to assess the success and impact of the various measures taken. Although this study does not propose major alterations to EU agricultural policy it does make concrete achievable proposals for action based on the existing policy framework. These proposals include: improving information about young farmers; easing farm transfers; encouraging early retirement in the sector; tackling installation costs; improving education, training and networking.

Download or read book Agriculture and Enlargement written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 50 years, a key EU objective has been to eliminate trade barriers between the EU Member States and to create a single market where goods, people, money and services can move freely. By creating a single market without borders and a single currency (the Euro), the EU has given a significant boost to internal trade and employment. Many farmers in the candidate countries have already benefited from membership ahead of enlargement. Targeted EU-funded rural development and investment schemes are in place in these countries, and the progressive liberalisation of trade in agricultural products with the EU has helped farmers to prepare for operating and competing within the enlarged market. Economic operators in the EU and the enlargement countries have gained from open borders and easier trading conditions. Turkey and the western Balkans increased exports of basic agricultural products and processed agricultural products to the EU under preferential trade provisions -- EU Bookshop.

Download or read book The Future of Rural Policy written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2003-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the principal conclusions of the international conference, The Future of Rural Policy, the major shift necessary to guarantee the future vitality of rural regions is the diversification of their economies. This conference, held in Siena, Italy, on 10-13 July 2002, identified the need for rural policies to go beyond agriculture and offer new trajectories of development for rural areas. The end result is a new approach to rural areas that recognises the importance of the interdependence between rural and urban areas, mobilises investment (rather than distributing subsidies) and expands the definition of countryside. This new approach should also emphasise governance structures that encourage bottom-up initiatives as well as stress the ability of local actors to identify problems, formulate strategies and be full partners in policy implementation.