The New Hungary Regional Development Strategy Plan and competitiveness

Ficsor, Ádám

Keywords: competitiveness, environmental management, investment, regional income generation and quality of life, EMVA

The New Hungary Regional Development Strategy Plan, while fitting into the EU environment, takes into account the changes expected between 2007-2013 in order to suitably represent and assert Hungary’s interests. The 1698/2005 EK decree, which provides the legal environment forecasts three aims and one solution with a separate method. This is why we can speak about four developmental axes for the 2007-2013 period. Based on the EK decree, the Hungarian government outlined four strategic aims: increasing competitiveness – broken down into physical and human competitiveness – the strengthening of environmental management, the realisation of complex regional development, and the wide ranging promotion of Leader+. The competitiveness aims can be characterised by quality, market and innovation keywords, environment management by small region clusters, complex regional development by income generation and quality of life aspirations, and Leader by its particular method. The challenge is not the expending of resources, but carrying out effective, sensible investment. Consultation, applicant and client-friendly execution, expert collaboration and science will all have a determining role in implementation.