WYDATKI BUDŻETOWE W PROGRAMIE ROZWOJU OBSZARÓW WIEJSKICH (PROW) NA LATA 2014–2020 – PROBLEM NIEDOBORU ŚRODKÓW
BUDGETARY EXPENDITURES ON PROGRAM FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (RDP) FOR THE PERIOD 2014–2020 – PROBLEM OF MONEY DEFICIENCY

Summary/Abstract: After many months of work and consultation in December 2014 the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014–2020 was finally approved. Specify a list of objectives and activities of this Programme was very difficult because the budget negotiations concerning the second pillar of the common agricultural policy resulted in much lower amount of money for Poland than in 2007–2013. As a consequence, it was necessary to determine priority tasks eligible for funding under the RDP and those for which support will be lower. The aim of the paper is to present budgetary considerations and its consequences for the development of rural areas in Poland in the years 2014–2020. The authors try to evaluate the structure of the new Programme, as well as to answer the question whether the deficit of EU money for some of the tasks previously performed by the RDP 2007–2013 may be covered by expenditure under cohesion policy. Data relating to the allocation of funds in the new financial period indicate that the RDP 2014–2020 emphasis on the competitiveness of agriculture, as evidenced by higher than in 2007–2013 amount of support for activities “modernization of farms” and “agricultural producer groups” and similar to the “young farmer”. But there is limited support for the entrepreneurship development and rural infrastructure. These tasks are to be increasingly financed from other EU funds, including the Cohesion Fund. Compensation will be real only if the level of the money allocation from the cohesion policy will be higher than in 2007–2013 (and this is not certain as yet), and when a detailed list of projects implemented within the framework of the fund will be specified (there is no such information in document). The article is a review of official government documents and deductive considerations contained, supplemented by the authors own calculations, allow to provide definitive conclusions.

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