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Introduction

in Western Poland can be stimulated to a great extent by the significant growth potential, primarily in the first and second pillar of the LNDS.

An important national strategie document is the mid-term National Development Strategy 2020. Active Society, Competitive Economy, Efficient State (NDS), adopted by the Council of Ministers on 25 September 2012.¹⁴⁾ The NDS, referring to the key provisions of the LNDS, sets strategie areas and interventions in the perspective of 2020. Particular emphasis is placed on measures to strengthen regional potentials, the most promising in the context of ensuring the sustainability of development. For this reason, the NDS does not refer to the entire spectrum of activities of the State in all areas of its operation, but focuses on three strategie objectives - institutional efficiency and effectiveness, competitiveness of the economy and social and territorial cohesion. The NDS sees the need for programming socio-economic development in macro-regional systems. The section on implementation of the Strategy proposes to introduce legał and organisational framework for managing in functional areas and to introduce new instruments to inerease the effectiveness of regional policy.

The SDWP objectives correspond with NDS objectives, in particular with regard to the inerease in the innovativeness of the economy, improving the efficiency of transport and strengthening of territorial mechanisms for sustainable development, as well as spatial integration to develop and fully use regional potentials.

The key document for determining the strategie vision of development for the Western Poland is the National Strategy of Regional Development 2010-2020: Regions, Cities, Rural Areas (NSRD), adopted by the Council of Ministers on 13 July 2010.¹⁵’ The SDWP, as the instrument of macro-regional integration and a catalyst for the implementation of projects aimed at strengthening the competitive position of Western Poland, is part of the regional development paradigm resulting from the NSRD. The SDWP sets development activities that use endogenous (local) potentials, indicated with respect to the principles of: concentration, evidence-based policy, partnership and multilevel governance. Compliance with the NSRDmeans compliance with the principles on which the preparation and implementation of these documents are based, coherence of development objectives and the SDWP implementation system forming a part of a unified management system for regional development presented in the NSRD.

¹⁴¹ Resolution No. 157 of the Council of Ministers of 25 September 2012 concerning the adoption of the National Development Strategy 2020 (MP item 882).

’⁵¹ Resolution of the Council of Ministers of 13 July 2010, the National Strategy for Regional Development 2010-2020: Regions, cities, rural areas (MP 2011, No. 36, item 423).