Slovakia (sk)
Slovakia1 (2005)
Bioidversity Conservation activities are mostly financed from public sources. Principal Nature
Conservation Agencies are receiving full or partial contributions from the state budget.
In 2004, Environmental Fund was established through the Act No. 587/2004.
The Fund is managed through the Ministry of the Environment. Revenues of the Fund comes from 19
sources identified in § 3, including inter alia, penalties, fines, donations, interested from credits,
collections of entrance fees to protected areas, etc.
The funds can be provided to eligible recipients in the form of grants or credits. Eligible areas of support
include actions supporting implementation of the State Environmental Policy ( i.e. including
conservation of biodiversity), research and surveys aiming at improving of the state of the Environment,
environmental education and training , etc.
Annual Fund Management costs can not exceed 3 % of the annual revenue of the Fund.
The projects for support are approved by the Minister of the Environment upon recommendations
made by the Board of the Environment Fund that is an Advisory Body to the Minister.
Since the entrance of SR into the EU financial support is available through EU Structural Funds (such as
European Rural Development Fund) on the basis of sectoral operational plans.2
For nature conservation activities the support is provided under measure “Conservation and Restoration
of Natural Environment”. Eligible areas of support are
 nature conservation infrastructure , and
 development and implementation of management plans for protected areas.
Total allocation for the period 2004 - 2006 amounts to 7,626 thousand EUR ( of that – 5,720 thousand
EUR is from Structural Funds) .
Measure 5. “Agroenvironment and Animal Living Conditions” of the Agriculture and Rural Development
Plan is a key measure for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
Other EU schemes, most particularly LIFE and INTERREG can be accessed for support as well.
Except for above mentioned, certain amount of annual budget of the MInistry of the Environmnet is
earmarked for implmenting the BD ACtion PLan.
Event though only small projects and its limited amount, many projectes were successfully done.
1
Slovakia (2005). The Third National Report on the implementation of the Convention on biological Diversity in
the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, November 2005, 185 pp.
(1) 2 SOP Agriculture and Rural Development (agro-environmental measures), SOP Basic Infrastructure
Poland-Slovakia-Ukraine
Foundation for Eastern Carpathian Biodiversity Conservation
Zbigniew Niewiadomski
Head Representative
Representative Office in Poland
38-714 Ustrzyki Gorne 19
Poland
Tel: +48 13 461 0643
Fax: +48 13 461 0610
e-mail: ecbc@wp.pl
Year: 1995
Donors: World Bank-GEF, MacArthur Foundation
Foundation for Eastern Carpathian Biodiversity Conservation