Distribution of Interventions of the Rural Development Programme and Regional Operational Programmes in 2007-2013 in the Context of Territorial Development

Making up for differences in the regional development is one of the main challenges facing the European Union in the context of the integration of European countries. Against this background, particularly visible are the relations among the EU sectoral policies, in this case (regional) cohesion policy instruments and CAP second pillar instruments (rural policy). The article analyses the types of interventions of the CAP second pillar instruments and regional operational programmes in the implementation period from 2007 to 2013. The paper analyses the relations between inputs for the individual axes and subjects of the rural and regional policy subjects and the selected characteristics of the socio-economic development at the local level (districts). Information on the amount of support under 16 Regional Operational Programmes (ROPs) comes from the SIMIK database, while the data on the Rural Development Programme (RDP) and regional characteristics – from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office (GUS). The study showed that, at the local level, the effects of implementing the RDP and ROP are complementary while the measures within the individual axes of intervention of both sectoral policies are related to different regional development characteristics