By that the provider adopt behaviours that are not legally obliged to improve and/or ensure continuation of ES provision, as it compensates the cost and efforts involved. Nevertheless, there is room for further development of pure PES and PES like schemes based on EU or global experiences.Ī ‘ Payment for Ecosystem Services’-PES as a monetary incentive, occurs when a beneficiary or user of an ecosystem service (ES), also considered as a buyer, makes voluntary and direct payment to the provider (seller) of defined ES. However, this position of the state represents also the main obstacle for the development of pure PES schemes, together with underdeveloped private forestry and complex socio-economic conditions. The role of the state is strongly pronounced in all countries studied, and was the main driving force behind all payments. Legislation in general recognised the link between forests and water, but this was much more evident in the forestry than in the water or environment sector. The environmental protection sector, however, rely more on the tax like rather than on the PES like schemes. In the water sector the well-established PES like payments schemes existing in all four countries. In Serbia and Slovenia, there were no PES or PES like schemes in the forestry sector. Research revealed existence of well-established payments schemes in forestry in Croatia for almost 30 years and in FB&H for some 20 years which were assessed as closest to pure PES. Here we looked at the flow of funding into the forestry sector recognising forest management as the main water-related forest ES provider. The second consists of a content analysis focusing on the definition of ES the definition of fees or payments the establishment of ‘forest funds’, ‘water funds’, or ‘environmental funds’ and the way these funds were spent. In the first step, the most important legislative documents related to forests, water, and environmental protection were selected. For the purpose of this paper, the term pure PES describes schemes that comply to all five conditions set by Wunder definition and term PES like for those schemes that miss some of those conditions. The focus is on water-related forest ES recognised by the millennium ecosystem assessment (MEA). *Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.This paper examines the level of payment for ecosystem services (PES) concept implementation in the financing of water-related forest ecosystem services (ES) in the Republic of Croatia, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FB&H), the Republic of Slovenia, and the Republic of Serbia. The seminar, organised by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in cooperation with the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, is the second one to be held in Sovenia. The seminar will bring together over 140 participants, including 60 members of parliament from 23 NATO member states and partner countries. Delegates will also hear from OSCE and EU representatives and independent experts. Senior Slovenian government officials, including Milan Brglez, President of the National Assembly, Andreja Katic, Minister of Defence and Andrei Logar, State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will attend the seminar and discuss with the participants. Exchanges also include briefings on the state of affairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia* and Serbia. The topics on the agenda cover the full spectrum of the region’s political, economic, and social developments, including internal and external challenges arising from populism, nationalism, and “fake news”, as well as migration. The three-day meeting focuses on the Euro-Atlantic perspective of the Western Balkans and will take stock of the progress achieved and the challenges that remain to be addressed. Ljubljana, 6 November 2017 – The 96th Rose-Roth meeting of legislators from NATO member and partner countries will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 7-9 November.
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