In order for the NCA CR to be able to pay financial contributions to landowners, it was necessary to clarify compliance with budgetary rules. In order to ensure compliance with the budgetary rules, NCA CR built the entire system from scratch. The first step was to distinguish between commonly assigned management activities in nature conservation and to determine the usual costs for their implementation. Today, the results are unified in a code list of activities in nature conservation linked to costs of common management measures.
The most challanging and the crucial factor is to agree on costs of common management activities (e.g. cost of mowing 1 ha of a meadow, creating 1 m2 of a water pond, etc.) with the Ministry of Environment and with practical land managers.
Once the list of activities and associated costs of common management measures is agreed upon, it is quite easy to make annual updates, the signing of individual contracts is relatively fast and easy and the costs are fully transparent.