Description
On 2 December 2022, the Strategic Plan of the CAP 2023-2027 (SPP) of Italy was approved by the European Commission's Implementing Decision (C(2022) 8645 final). The approval of the PHP comes at the end of a complex process of negotiation and discussion with the European Commission that began with the notification of the first strategy proposal on 31 December 2021.
Italy's PHP) approved on 2 December 2022 was amended by successive versions approved by decisions of the European Commission.
With regard to the EU rural development objectives supported by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), funding is implemented at provincial level through the Interventions, for which the Autonomous Province of Trento has drawn up the document called the 'Rural Development Programming Complement of the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027' (CSR), the first version of which was adopted by Resolution of the Provincial Council no. 262 of 17 February 2023. For Trentino's rural development, 17 Interventions have been activated, for a total of available resources amounting to Euro 198,960,232, with a co-financing rate of 40.70% EU resources, 41.51% national resources and 17.79% provincial resources.
The strategic choices that determined the setting of Trentino's rural development policies for the 2023-2027 programming period were decided in the course of 2022, with Deliberation of the Provincial Council no. 1543 of 26 August 2022. In brief, the interventions to be activated range from biodiversity to support for mountain areas, from the competitiveness of farms to the development of rural areas, from specific investments in the processing and marketing of agricultural products to diversification into non-agricultural activities, from support for organic production areas to the management of meadows and pastures, and finally to support for young farmers and training.