Rural development approach in Romania's sustainable development strategy 2014-2020

In the paper we will analyze the evolution of the Romanian agriculture at national and especially regional level, in the context of its alignment with the European Union standards, is very important because we are facing a certain compatibility dilema between the new Community Agricultural Policy 2014-2020, (high technical performance, the presence of important stocks of agricultural products, etc.) and the state of Romanian agriculture, which has other objectives (profound restructuring and consolidation of farms, massive financial support for increasing technical and economic returns, balancing agri-food balance, etc.). The present analysis aimed at highlighting the structural and dynamic evolutions of the main indicators that characterize the agriculture of Romania during the period 2011-2016, namely: macroeconomic indicators; production structures; cultivated areas and livestock; agricultural crop and animal production; prices of agricultural products. In Romania, the first Sustainable Development Strategy was implemented between 1997 and 1999 and was revised in 2008 (Sustainable Development Strategy 2013-2020-2030). In 2013, the National Strategy for Regional Development 2014-2020 was developed, which includes several aspects of ensuring sustainable development. In 2014, the Strategic Guidelines for Sustainable Development of the Carpathians (2014- 2020) were approved