CoR - Hungary Agri

Central

Government authorities are responsible for:

Providing central governance for the agriculture, the food sector, forest management and forest conservation, research and development, agricultural product turnover, agri-environmental management, plant protection, plant health, animal health, conservation of the quality of agricultural lands, cartography and land issues, as well as agricultural water management;
Providing central governance for rural development and for the associated research and development efforts;
Organising the agricultural market, and discharging the duties associated with the quality control of agricultural, food, forestry and primary timber products with the exception of pre-marketing certification of consumer goods and post-marketing checks;
Discharging the government tasks associated with the central stockpiling of agricultural and food products;
Developing proposals for the sectoral support schemes and contributing to the formulation of the sectoral taxation and financial policy systems;
Developing the overall rural development strategy, identifying short-, mid- and long-term targets, analysing the legal, technical and financial alternatives ensuring the achievement of such targets, and contributing to the development of means and programmes to this end;
Preparing and implementing the Agricultural and Rural Development Operative Program of the New Széchenyi Plan; and the Rural Development Programme.
Management and contact point of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
International Cooperation and activities.

Regional

No competencies identified at the regional level.

Local

Local government units are responsible for:

LEADER groups and management.
LEADER programmes and projects.
Promotion and support of local producers.
Implementation of national policies.
Providing necessary data for monitoring frameworks at the national level.
Supporting individual applicants request funding under the EAFRD via the national managing authority.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Agriculture

Sources

Act No. XVII of 2007 on certain issues of procedures with regard to agricultural, rural development and fishery subsidies and other measures

Hungary Rural Development Programme, 2014

Government regulation 94/ 2018(V.22) on tasks and powers of members of the Government (94/2018. (V. 22.) Korm. rendelet

a Kormány tagjainak feladat- és hatásköréről

The first decesions on supporting local developments in the LEADER programme have been taken ( Megszülettek az első, helyi fejlesztéseket támogató döntések a LEADER Programban)

2019

The Ministry of Agriculture has prolonged the call for applications on the electrification of farms ( Meghosszabbította az Agrárminisztérium a tanyavillamosítási pályázatot)

2019

Two local community centres in Szabolcs – Szatmár- Bereg county have been renewed by the Support of Rural Development Programme (Vidékfejlesztési támogatással újult meg két közösségi központ Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megyében)