This will enable Slovenia to become the best place in Europe for living, working, investing and visiting. Our aim is the co-ordination, promotion and implementation of regional structural policy for balanced and sustainable regional development in the Republic of Slovenia. Although we are a new institution it's staff has built up extensive experience in the field of regional policy development and programme implementation.
Regional variety is an important and strong feature of Slovenia.
However, while building up our new country, structural regional imbalances occurred in such areas as employment, transition to open market economy, environment, standards of living and education. NARD was appointed as the key national institution to implement the new regional development policy. NARD was charred with co-ordinating implementation of regional structural policy in Slovenia and balanced regional development. In preparing for the EU membership NARD is also responsible for European union structural and cohesion policy implementation. NARD is a bridge between national, regional and EU institutions.