Rural Development Programme 2014-2022, Operation 16.5.1

The Rural Development Programme (RDP) is an instrument desired by the European Union to financially support interventions in the agricultural, forestry and environmental fields.
The Autonomous Province of Trento is an active participant in this project, and the Sustainable Development and Protected Areas Service is the body delegated to take care of practices in the environmental sector. The eligible interventions concern ecological connectivity, the safeguarding of biodiversity, the landscape and the public enjoyment of natural assets.

Operation 16.5.1 has the general objective of planning territorial interventions on vast areas of naturalistic interest in order to increase ecological connectivity and biodiversity by involving a large number of subjects.
The operation finances the preparatory and participatory phase as well as the implementation of collective territorial projects aimed at the adoption of management practices to protect fauna and flora and to conserve the traditional agricultural landscape.

Beneficiaries are Natura 2000 management bodies, lead bodies of the Networks of Reserves, other protected area managers, municipalities, valley communities, other public bodies, producer associations, land improvement consortia and other consortia, foundations and private bodies.

Beneficiaries must come together in an association of at least two entities according to the terms of the notice.

No calls for tenders were opened for this operation in the year 2022.

For contributions already granted, please refer to the previous calls for proposals for the related fulfilments:

• reporting (for the final payment of the contribution, the beneficiary must submit an online application at the following link: http://srt.infotn.it);
• extensions;
• variations;
• waivers.

• Application for extension;
• application for a variation;
• request for waiver.

For the payment procedure of operations activated in past years, it may be useful to consult the archive.