The National Development Strategy, which draft was prepared by the Ministry of Regional Development, was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 29 November 2006. It is a principal strategic document which provides guidelines for other Government and local government strategies and programmes.

The NDS determines the goals and identifies major areas that will be the focus of the state's activities. It also sets out priorities of Poland’s social and economic development and the conditions that should sustain this development.

Main goal of National Development Strategy
To improve standards and quality of life of Polish residents: individuals and their families

Priorities:

1. Improvement of competitiveness and innovativeness of the economy
2. Improvement of the condition of technical and social infrastructure
3. Increase of employment and improvement of its quality
4. Building an integrated social community and its security
5. Development of rural areas
6. Regional development and the improvement of territorial cohesion
    

The National Development Strategy:

• determines goals and identifies areas regarded as the most important from the point of view of attaining those goals, on which the state’s activities will be concentrated,
• takes into account major development trends of the global economy and the objectives set by the European Union in the Lisbon Strategy,
• gives priority to the activities to be undertaken by the Government between 2007 and 2015 in order to pursue the vision of Poland,
• it is a principal, long-standing strategic document of the country’s socioeconomic development, which serves as the point of reference for other strategies and programmes prepared by the Government and local govern¬ments,
• it is the basis premise for preparing the National Cohesion Strategy (National Strategic Reference Framework), the National Strategic Plan for 2007-2013 Rural Development and the National Strategic Plan for Fisheries Development as well as the operational programmes resulting from it.

The National Development Strategy includes all of the development actions that were taken with the aim of improving the social and economic conditions. It sets out courageous goals but they seems to be realistic if we take into account the opportunities resulting from Poland’s membership in the UE and all of the resources and advantages that the country possesses. The document enables as well to integrate and coordinate the cohesion policy with other policies co-financed from the community funds.

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National Development Strategy 2007-2015