Estrategia de la UE para la recuperación de las zonas rurales
Opinion factsheet
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- Agricultura, política marítima y política de protección de los consumidores
- Desarrollo rural
Opinion number:
CDR-1066-2020
Status:
Aprobados
Objective
Underlines that the new long-term vision for rural areas should be transformed into a concrete policy framework – the Rural Agenda
Highlights that the Rural Agenda should:
diversify entry points and mainstream rural issues into all EU policies. The needs of rural areas go far beyond what rural development policy can achieve,
but what EU funding currently offers is lacking in terms of both quantity and quality;
harmonise the different regulations and reintegrate the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in the common provision regulation in order to
encourage and facilitate multi-funded projects in rural areas, not necessarily linked with agriculture;
monitor EU spending using a rural proofing approach;
rethink the urban-rural typology to improve the targeting of support;
increase the role of the local and regional levels in the development and governance of rural policies;
combat depopulation and social exclusion by promoting the smart villages initiative and social innovation and closing the digital divide;
Calls for increases to the European budget dedicated to rural development, given the importance of rural areas in Europe.
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Highlights that the Rural Agenda should:
diversify entry points and mainstream rural issues into all EU policies. The needs of rural areas go far beyond what rural development policy can achieve,
but what EU funding currently offers is lacking in terms of both quantity and quality;
harmonise the different regulations and reintegrate the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in the common provision regulation in order to
encourage and facilitate multi-funded projects in rural areas, not necessarily linked with agriculture;
monitor EU spending using a rural proofing approach;
rethink the urban-rural typology to improve the targeting of support;
increase the role of the local and regional levels in the development and governance of rural policies;
combat depopulation and social exclusion by promoting the smart villages initiative and social innovation and closing the digital divide;
Calls for increases to the European budget dedicated to rural development, given the importance of rural areas in Europe.
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Impact
The COR opinion on EU strategy for Rural revival was mentioned by the Minister for Federal and European affairs of the Lower Saxony.This was done during the conference on the long term vision for rural areas on 9 March 2021, with the cabinet of commissioner Ferreira and Constanze Krehl EP rapporteur on REACT EU and rapporteur on the common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund during the previous mandate.
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Essential points
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- Underlines that the new long-term vision for rural areas should be transformed into a concrete policy framework – the Rural Agenda;
- Highlights that the Rural Agenda should:
o ensure that mutually beneficial rural-urban linkages are integrated into all EU policies in line with territorial cohesion objectives by making the most of the strong interdependencies between rural and urban areas;
o diversify entry points and mainstream rural issues into all EU policies. The needs of rural areas go far beyond what rural development policy can achieve, but what EU funding currently offers is lacking in terms of both quantity and quality;
o harmonise the different regulations and reintegrate the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in the common provision regulation in order to encourage and facilitate multi-funded projects in rural areas, not necessarily linked with agriculture;
o monitor EU spending using a rural proofing approach;
o rethink the urban-rural typology to improve the targeting of support;
o increase the role of the local and regional levels in the development and governance of rural policies;
o combat depopulation and social exclusion by for example promoting the smart villages initiative, the bioeconomy and social innovation and closing the digital divide;
- Calls for increases to the European budget dedicated to rural development. Worryingly, the new MFF allocation is significantly lower than in the current programming period and the CoR calls for this to be reversed and rural funding increased;
- Requests that financial instruments be developed further and adapted to small-scale projects;
- Encourages a simplification and a harmonisation of the Structural and Investment Funds;
- Advocates a future CAP that maintains a direct relationship with rural territory areas through the active role of the EU's regions, which play a crucial role when it comes to defining and implementing rural development policies at local level.