Structural Funds of Polish Agriculture

The research objective of the project and article “The impact of Structural Funds on the growth of competitiveness of Polish agriculture" is to assess competitiveness of regions in Poland from the perspective of Polish agriculture by analysing the efficiency of the use of Structural Funds, the economic procedure of their distribution and the regulatory and organisational framework under the Rural Development Programme (RDP). It must be stressed that defining the scope of research in the above manner limits the analysis only to the part of Structural Funds directed to support Polish agriculture.





References:
[1] The current RDP was published in the Notice of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of 12 October 2007 on the Rural
Development Programme 2007-2013, (M.P. (Official Gazette of the Republic of Poland) of 2007, No 94, item 1035 as amended).
[2] Dz. U. (Journal of Laws) No 64, item 427, as amended. Apart from this Act the other basic legal acts regulating the field which is the topic of the
dissertation include: the Act of Parliament of 22 September 2006 on
mobilisation of the European Union budget funds earmarked for
financing of the Common Agricultural Policy (Dz. U. No 187, item
1381, as amended); the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of 25 March 2009 on conditions and manner of conducting checks on certain implementing entities by the Paying
Agency with regard to performance of delegated tasks by these entities
under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (Dz. U. No 57, item 473); the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development of 18 March 2009 on distribution of the funds of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (Dz. U. No 48, item 388) and
several other specific regulations which govern the granting of aid under
individual measures.
[3] The following regulations may be listed as an example here: the
Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 13 December 2006 on
conditions and manner of cooperation of the Minister competent for
public finance with a coordinating unit and the internal auditor of a
paying agency (Dz. U. No 239, item 1730); the Regulation of the
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of 6 December 2006 on
the scope, manner and form of submitting financial data and information
by paying agencies to a coordinating unit and on the time limits for their
submission (Dz. U. No 229, item 1674); the Regulation of the Council of
Ministers of 12 August 2008 on loans from the State budget for advance
funding under the Rural Development Programme (Dz. U. No 156, item
968); the Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 3 March 2009 on
transferring the funds for the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy into a bank account of a paying agency (Dz. U. No
40, item 325); the Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 9 November
2006 on accrediting the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of
Agriculture as the paying agency in charge of mobilising the funds from
the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (Dz. U. No 204, item 1506, as
amended).