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Despite positive contribution of the Common Agricultural Policy to their development, rural areas are still facing difficult development challenges – social and economic, environmental and territorial alike. On 1st January 2014, a new package of EU regulations entered into force, providing a new shape to the Common Agricultural Policy, and, consequently, to the policy of rural areas development. The new regulations reflect the European Union’s strategic goals, including the key goal for the next decade, namely a growth that would be intelligent, permanent and inclusive. Such a growth is to be achieved thanks to the intelligent and sustainable economy, part of which is agriculture.