Governmental Decree No. 598 validating the Federal Target Program “Sustainable Development of Rural Areas for the period of 2014-2017 and until 2020”. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Date 2013 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Water Keyword Policy/planning Agricultural development Sustainable development Rural employment Agricultural commodities Financial agricultural measures Equipment Public private partnership (PPP) Cultural heritage Water supply Potable water Geographical area Arctic, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract Rural areas in the Program shall be intended rural settlements or rural settlements and inter-settlement territories united by a common territory within the boundaries of a municipal district, as well as rural settlements and workers' settlements included in the urban districts (except for urban districts with administrative centers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation) and urban settlements where prevail activities related to production and processing of agricultural commodities. It is assumed that the list of such rural settlements and workers' settlements on the territory of a subject of the Russian Federation will be determined by the supreme executive body of the state power of the subject of the Russian Federation or the authorized body of the executive power of the subject of the Russian Federation. In the Program, investment project in the sphere of agro-industrial complex shall be intended as the realization of capital investments by the agricultural commodity producer, related to the construction (reconstruction, modernization) of objects of agricultural purpose, objects of processing and trade of agricultural commodities, purchase of livestock, machinery and equipment, in the process of which high-tech jobs are created. Full text Russian Website pravo.gov.ru