EU rural development "disaster zone"
It includes 118 Rural Development Programmes — and the European Commission says it expects only 10 of these to be approved by the end of this year. Another 15 or so are expected to be approved by the end of March, with the remaining 93 having to wait until May 1, 2015 for adoption.
“The bulk of RDPs will not be approved until 18 months or more after the start of the seven-year programming period to which they apply,” said EU agricultural policy expert Alan Matthews this week, on the capreform.eu blog.
