National Development 2030 - National Development and Regional Development Concept.

This National and Regional Development Concept is a multi-sectoral policy document at the national level, covering the period of 2014-2030. The Four long-term overall development objectives until 2030 are set out in this Concept: a) value creating and employment providing economic development, b) demographic turn, healthy and renewed society, c) sustainable use of natural resources, value preservation and environment protection, d) sustainable spatial structure based on regional potentials.
The Concept seeks to boost the economy, increase competitiveness and improve transport links, energy efficiency, employment, social inclusion as well as to develop rural regions. It promotes to make agriculture more productive and sustainable and enable agriculture and food systems more inclusive. Two of its seven sectoral policy objectives are defined as: 1. viable countryside, health food production and supply, development of the food and processing industry; 2. preservation and sustainable use of strategic resources, protection of environment, aiming to guarantee safety in the fields of food, energy and drinking water supply, the environment and the climate, to preserve biodiversity as well as the diversity and values of landscapes, to promote a sustainable lifestyle, production and consumption. Economic strategy areas grounding long-term development include: export-oriented development of agriculture and the food economy, providing for the internal market, for employment and the supply of healthy foodstuffs. According to the Concept, by 2030, the agriculture and food industry will be strengthened and make an increasing contribution to the national economy, exports, rural development and employment. Sectoral policy tasks relating to rural Hungary, healthy food production and supply and environment protection are also proposed in the Concept, including: : Protection of arable land, acquisition of land in Hungary and promotion of land use with instruments that are in line with the EU regulations; Development of water management in agriculture to reduce the effects of climate change and assist in producing a higher added value; Development of water management in agriculture to reduce the effects of climate change and assist in producing a higher added value; Assistance to types of businesses, family farms and associations that satisfy the requirements of sustainability and provide employment; Strengthening of versatile and GMO free farming, dissemination of ecological farming; Quantitative and qualitative soil protection, preservation of the productivity of soils, organic material management, replenishment of nutrition; etc. Six regional objectives are also identified, including: a) increasing the macro-regional role of the country; b) a network of towns with a multi-centred spatial structure; c) increasing the population keeping capacity of rural regions; d) development of regions of outstanding landscape value; e) reducing territorial differences, promoting regional cohesion and economy stimulation; f) interconnected spaces: accessibility and mobility.