Priority sector description:

Promotion of Sustainable development through improved resource use and management

- not a priority sector

- promote sustainable natural resources management and efficient use

- implementation of management plans for NATURE 2000 sites

- sustainable forest management

- assistance with enforcing and implementation of Strategy on Sustainable Development on local and regional level

- enhancement of biodiversity preservation in NATURA areas

- improved management and effective use of natural resources in selected sensitive areas, e.g. in olive oil production

- strengthen citizens’ (primarily children’s) susceptibility and environmental education through the development of network systems and of a pilot training ecological park in selected urban areas with increased environmental problems

- reduce traffic load in specific heavy affected areas through development and promotion of intelligent traffic regulation and control systems

- encouraging organic agriculture; production and breeding of ancient Hungarian domestic plant and animal species

- establishment and further development of innovation centres

- promote sustainable economic development

- competence building in the field of sustainable development and possible establishment of the Sustainable Development Institute

- encourage organic agriculture

- increased natural resources management and efficient use

- improved sustainable management and surveillance of marine resources, through inter alia introduction of new information technology

- not a priority sector

- reduction of energy, raw material and water consumption of manufacturing and services activities through improvement of efficiency of productive resources use

- use of alternative energy sources

- support for the creation of a ‘green workplace’ and ‘green procurement’

- enhancement of environmental education through creation of networks for environmental learning

- activities encouraging protection, improvement and restoration of biodiversity, including marine resources and areas included in Nature 2000 sites

- activities for supporting forest management

- sustainable forest management

- implementation of sustainable public service centres in rural areas

- city networks for competition and internationalisation

- not a priority sector

- promotion of renewable energy sources

- improvement of municipal street lighting for energy saving

- reconstruction of heat distributions and central sources of heat operated by public enterprises for energy saving

- promotion of the use of bio fuels and alternative energy resources as secondary sources of energy at municipality and regional level

- promotion of food safety

- environment education and mainstreaming on all levels of public administration including support to environmental information activities

- traffic administration and safety

- promote the sustainable management of specific urban and landscape areas

- strengthening education and research in the field of sustainable development

- establish a national GPS network as a basis for Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) needed to support Land Administration/ Cadastre, Environmental information, Physical planning/ Land development and public sector management

- implementation of the European Landscape Convention

- protection, improvement and restoration of biodiversity

- promotion of rural tourism

- geographic information, geodesy, hydrography and geomatics