The European Commission has approved a further 18 Rural Development Programmes from 13 EU Member States (BE, EE, FI, FR, DE, LV, LT, NL, PT, ES, SK, SI & UK). These latest approvals on 13 February mean that 27 out of the 118 RDPs for 2014-2020 have now been approved (23 %).
EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan highlighted that initiatives to be supported under this latest set of RDPs range "from modernisation projects for agriculture in the Baltic Republics, and encouraging more young farmers to enter the sector in Slovenia, to specific schemes to improve water quality in the Netherlands." They will also notably “provide more than one million places on training courses.”
For the latest updates on RDP approvals, see the Commission’s rural development 2014-2020 Country Files, where you can find the latest state of play as well as factsheets, summaries and press releases on all the approved RDPs.
