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Bruselas, 15 de sep 2015

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Region of Andalucía (Spain)

Surface: 87.597 km2

Population: 8,39 Mill. inhabitants

Transition region (2014-2020)

Agricultural Surface: 44.027 km2

Forestry : 38.971 km2

Agrifood complex:

• 8 % of GDP

• 10 % of Employment

First agricultural region in Spain

Including

Agro-industries

Added

Value Employed

Agriculture 6.993 M€ 220.900

Agro-Industry 2.287 M€ 47.170

TOTAL 9.280 M€ 268.070

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A very diverse Agriculture

Open fields

Bétic Mountains

Guadalquivir river

sides

Dehesa

pastureland

Olive trees

Litoral

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Identified needs, by areas

Environment

Water quality Good Practices and

Climate Change

Soil

preservation

Sustainable use of the

Mediterranean Forest

Management of

resources and waste

Biodiversity

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Detected needs, by topics

Competitivity

Quality

of life

Research

and

Innovation

Sistem

Local Development

Modernization

Holdings

Industries

Infraestructures

Comercialization Diferentiated quality

Better coordination

Access to credit

Human Capital,

Young and Women

Access to ICTs

Encourage

innovative

minsets

Training and

capacity building

Improvement of life

quality and economic

diversification

Risk management

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EC’s recommendations for Spain (Position Paper):

• Raise of the employment rate and work productivity, together with the improvement of the education, training and social inclusion policies with special attention to young people and most vulnerable groups.

• Adaptation of the productive system towards higher added value activities through the improvement of SMEs competitivity.

• Promotion of a favourable business environment for innovation and strengthening of the Research and Innovation System

• More efficient use of natural resources

Strategy

Partnership

Agreement

Spain - EU

Rural

Development

National

Framework

FEADER Spain: 8.290 M€

238 M€ 1 National RDP

8.053 M€ 17 Regional RDP

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In coherence with Europe Strategy 2020:

“Andalucia Economic Plan 2014-2020”

Main Objective : Job creation

A strong RDP, adapted to the needs

17 Measures, targeted specially to:

• promote agriculture and agroindustry ’s competitivity

• restore, preserve and improve ecosystems related to agriculture and y silviculture

FEADER

NATIONAL+ REGIONAL

BUDGET 540 M€

1.910 M€

Andalucía RDP 2014-2020

TOTAL PUBLIC MONEY 2.450 M€

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Main aspects of Andalucia RDP

Priorisation in RDP’s support is given to:

• Young Farmers and Women, encouraging genrational replacement.

• Producer’s groups members, being size an strategic element for food chain balance.

• Innovation, key for competitivity improvement.

• Organic Farming, a differentiation and competitivity element, outstanding for Andalucia.

• Dehesa pasturelands support, included in several measures.

• Energy efficiency investments, specially in irrigation systems.

• Natura 2000 support included y Organic Farming and Agri-environment-climate measures.

Olive sector

Subprogram 304 M€

Public Investment

Integrated Territorial

Investment - Cádiz 121.7M€

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Priority to investments and sustainability

Investments in physical assets gathers 28% of total budget . Followed by Forestry development (17%) and Agri-environment-climate (13%).

Public Investment in Millions Euro

(*) Includes 51.9 M€ of former years commintments for afforestation of agriculture land

(**) Measure not available in the new framework, only previous years commitments

689,1

413,9

328,0

258,0

201,6

138,5

73,3

71,8

67,9

59,8

55,9

29,3

20,3

11,1

9,3

9,0

8,3

5,1

Investments in physical assets

Investments in forestry development (*)

Agri-environment- climate

LEADER

Organic farming

Farm and business development (+initial establishment of …

Basic services and village renewal in rural areas

Aid for areas with specific constraints

Technical assistance

Knowledge transfer and Training

Advisory services

Cooperation

Participation of farmers in quality schemes

Agroforestry and climatic services for forest conservation

Setting up of Producers Groups

Animal welfare

Restoring agricultural production damaged by natural disasters

Early retirement from farming (**)

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Outstanding interventions, by EU RD priority

Priority 1: Innovation and knowledge transfer. Almost 145 M€ (5,91% of total). 250 Operational Groups and 63.000 places in Trainings

P221%

P310%

P438%

P514%

P614%

Asist. Téc.3%

130 M€ for setting up 2500 Young Farmers

182 M€ for modernization of holdings and 101 M€ for rural paths, 5.900 holdings involved

328 M€ for agri-environment aids, 578.910 hectares involved.

203 M€ for the modernization of more than 900 food industries

20 M€ fo the participation of more than 3.700 farmers in quality schemes r

201 M€ for Organic Farming , more than 530.000 hectares involved.

166 M€ for Prevention and

restoration of damage to forests

112 M€ for irrigation systems improvement , more than 66.000 hectares involved

219 M€ for resilience improvement and environmental value of Forestries

258 M€ for LEADER, which will create more than 1.600 jobs

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Oportunities within 2014-2020 RDP: II Pilar

1. Investment and development for transition regions.

2. Agri-food sector as an employment niche.

3. New measures and higher advance payments for investments that will boost and improve the Program execution.

4. Facilities for the setting up of young people in the agricultural activity.

5. Real incentives to development through Innovation operational groups.

6. Avility to movilize financial resources higher that public budget.

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Proposals for the future of the CAP

1. Targeted mechanisms of support and income stabilisation

elements.

2. Better inegration of regions in the decision taking process,

specially in territory policy design and in agricultural sectors.

3. More efficient and flexible market mechanisms.