RDP Measures
Axis 1 Competitiveness
- Vocational Training and information actions
- Setting up of Young Farmers
- Early Retirement of farmers and farm workers
- Farm Modernisation.
Axis 2 Improving the environment and the countryside
- Payment to farmers in areas with handicaps other than mountain areas
- NATURA 2000 payments and payments linked to Directive 2000/60/EC (Framework for Community action in the field of water policy)
- Agri- Environment Payments (REPs).
Axis 3 Quality of life in rural areas and diversification of the rural economy
- Diversification into non-agricultural activities
- Support for the creation and development of micro-enterprises
- Encouragement of tourism activities
- Basic services for the rural economy and population
- Village renewal and development
- Conservation and upgrading of the rural heritage
- Training and information for economic actors operating in the fields covered by Axis 3
Axis 4 Implementation of the LEADER approach
- A skills-acquisition and animation measure with a view to implementing local development strategies.
- Implementing local development strategies with a view to achieving the objectives of one or more of Axis 1, 2 or 3
- Running the local action groups, skills acquisition, and animation
- Implementing co-operation projects involving achievement of the objectives of one or more of Axis 1, 2 or 3.

