Data collection template and questionnaire

(4) Agricultural policy

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  Special responsibility for the rural area
  

Federal budget for the overall national policy area (mio €):⁶⁰²

	2001	2002 (planned)	2003 (planned)
Agricultural policy	1 483	1 450	1 364

This heading includes also the GA for the support of agricultural structure and coastal protection (‚Förderung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes’)

	Approved funds by GA^603 (1998: entire grants, to be split. 60% Federal level, 40% Länder; 2002: mio € only planned Federal Grants)
	1998 (mio DM)	2000 (mio €)^604	2002 (mio € )^605
Baden Württemberg	255,730	166, 276	89,832
Bavaria	480,927	313, 522	167,730
Berlin		0, 367	0,326
West	-
East	2,654
Brandenburg	301,333	153, 721	76,887
Bremen	7,275	1, 898	1,714
Hamburg	25,310	25, 075	9,934
Hesse	109,852	60, 429	41,197
Mecklenburg Western Pomerania	255,379	130, 766	69,143
Lower Saxony	359,133	240, 919	111,681
North Rhine Westphalia	170,453	111, 013	61,041
Rhineland Palatinate	137,204	84, 440	47,905
Saarland	17,342	10, 562	5,771
Saxony	189,908	95, 262	51,089
Saxony Anhalt	193,700	91, 238	52,595
Schleswig Holstein	136,067	85, 289	36,300
Thuringia	174,584	88, 298	46,100

Public expenditure impacting on regional development nevertheless mainly relate to the different common competencies/tasks (‘Gemeinschaftsaufgaben’). Thus, central government support instruments which have an identifiable regional incidence in Germany are:

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  GA of the development of the regional economic structure (‘Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur’) (see chapter on territorial policies) (see above)
  
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  GA for the support of agricultural structure and coastal protection (‚Förderung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes’) (see chapter on territorial policies) (see above)
  

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  GA for building and maintenance of Universities (GA ‘Hochschulbau’) (see above)
  

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  GA special programme ‘flood’ (‘Hochwasser’) (see chapter on territorial policies)
  

	2002-2003
Bayern	1.75 mio €	5%
Brandenburg	0.35 mio €	1%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.35 mio €	1%
Niedersachsen	0.35 mio €	1%
Sachsen	21 mio €	60%
Sachsen-Anhalt	5.25 mio €	15%
Thüringen	0.35 mio €	1%
Riserve	5.6 mio €	16%

Other Federal financial aid to the Länder (mio €)⁶⁰⁶

	Other financial support^607
	2001	2002
Baden Württemberg	272,3	250,7
Bavaria	511,8	501,6
Berlin	356,7	342,5
Brandenburg	66,0	68,5
Bremen	23,5	20,4
Hamburg	71,1	79,9
Hesse	250,7	240,4
Mecklenburg Western Pomerania	57,4	49,7
Lower Saxony	267,7	433,3
North Rhine Westphalia	873,5	711,5
Rhineland Palatinate	433,3	417,5
Saarland	22,7	20,4
Saxony	65,0	110,8
Saxony Anhalt	54,9	49,8
Schleswig Holstein	100,4	102,9
Thuringia	39,6	32,9

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  The so called Supplementary federal grants within the financial equalisation scheme (see chapter on public sector transfer)
  

	Supplementary federal grants (mio €)
	2000	2001
Baden-Württemberg	-	-
Bavaria	-	-
Berlin	1 955	1 925
Brandenburg	1 375	1 358
Bremen	987	870
Hamburg	-	-
Hesse	-	-
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1 030	1 017
Lower Saxony	970	899
North Rhine-Westphalia	-	-
Rhineland-Palatinate	658	550
Saarland	750	612
Saxony	2 345	2 313
Saxony-Anhalt	1 493	1 473
Schleswig-Holstein	406	219
Thuringia	1 370	1 352
Total	13 339	12 637