European sustainable development rural actor database
- Language:
- Polish
- Currency:
-
Zloty
- Area:
- 313,000.00
- Population:
- 38.20
- Density:
- 122.10
- GIP:
- 243
- GIP per cap.:
- 6,378.00
- Political regime:
- Republic
- Head of State:
- M. Lech Kaczynski (Law and Justice Party – PIS)
- Head of governement:
- M. Jaroslaw Kaczynski (Law and Justice Party – PIS)
- Eutropean Union Membership:
- 2004
- National anthem:
- Mazurka Dabrowskiego (Dabrowski’s Mazurka)
Administrative organization
Form of State: unitary State.
Legislative power, and supervision of local authorities are stipulated as national reserved matters by the constitution and other relevant legislation:
- Internal security and public order
- External security of the state
- Management of the national budget
Interesting ministries:
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister: M. Andrzej Lepper. In charge of land management and rural development. To be noted : one department in charge of the European Union.
- Ministry for Regional Development. Minister: Mrs Grazyna Gesicka.
- Ministry of the Environment. Minister: M. Jan Szyszko. Departments for ecology and environmental conservation.
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Administrative units
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Name
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Number
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Competences
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NUTS 1
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Regiony
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6
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NUTS 2
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Województwa (regions)
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16
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Regional development policy
Spatial planning
Promotion and health care planning (hospital net management)
Higher education
Promotion and economic development support
Planning and implementing the management of operational programs of the EU structural funds
Social policy
Labour market policy
Regional roads management
Environment protection
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NUTS 3
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Podregiony
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45
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LAU 1
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Powiaty (counties or districts)
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379
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Public net services
Secondary education
Environment protection
General hospitals
Construction supervision
Civil protection
Fire protection
Consumer protection
Social welfare
Employment (Poviat Labour Office)
Poviat roads management
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LAU 2
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Gminy (communes)
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2478
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Spatial development
Real estate management
Environment protection
Local roads
Water supply and sewage treatment
Maintenance of landfills
Electricity, gas and heat supply
Local public transport
Health care services
Social welfare
Gmina´s housing
Public education
Maintenance of cemeteries
Gmina´s promotion
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Total public expenditure : € 105.7 billions = 43.4% GDP.
Sub-national public expenditure : € 32.1 billions = 13.2% GDP = 30.4% total public expenditure.
Rural life
Utilized agricultural area: 50.9% total area, i.e. about 159,317 km2.
Rural population: 37.9% total population.
Labour force in agriculture: 2,292,000 Annual Work Units (AWU).
Unemployment rate by degree of urbanisation: unavailable data.
Employment rate by degree of urbanisation: unavailable data.
Youth unemployment ratio by degree of urbanisation: unavailable data.
Share of organic area in total utilised agricultural area: 0.6%.
Sustainability
The strategy “Poland 2025 – Long-term strategy for sustainable development” was adopted by the Council of Ministers in July 2000. The overall objective of the strategy is to “ensure the growth of welfare of the Polish families”. It focuses on closing the wealth gap with the EU but takes other dimensions of quality of life, such as a clean and natural environment and the preservation of Poland’s
cultural heritage into account. The Polish SDS structures the operational objectives into three categories:
- Society: education and training systems, science and research, human resources, health service, housing, public order.
- Economy: innovation, the development of services, modernisation of agriculture and rural areas, foreign trade, SMEs, technical infrastructure.
- The State: spatial structure/regional development, environmental protection, integration with the EU.
This strategy will be implemented by the central government, but at the same time relevant ministries or local authorities will be in charge of sectoral policies.
Environmental protection expenditure in the public sector: 0.5 % of GDP, i.e. 25 € per capita.
Government expenditure on environment protection, in % of GDP: 0.6%.
Government expenditure on environment protection, in % of total government expenditure: unavailable data.
Area protected under the Habitats Directive as a percentage of total area: 4.2%.