1. Activities to be financed: For the years 2024 and 2025, the activity of Forest Protection will be considered. For this purpose, the following distribution is established:
| PSA Modality | Activity | Quantity of hectares | | --- | --- | --- | | Maintenance of Forest Cover | Forest protection for greenhouse gas mitigation and biodiversity (base payment) | 102,213 | | Additional recognition for Protection of the water resource to an area of: | 40,000 | | | Additional recognition for Protection of forests in high biodiversity or megadiverse areas to an area of: | 40,000 | | If a property is located within the geospatial layers corresponding to water resource and high biodiversity, they will be eligible to receive additional recognition. This benefit will be granted complementarily, subject to the availability of the allocated budget.
The National Forest Financing Fund may vary the distribution established in the previous table, according to the availability of the budget for the Payment for Environmental or Ecosystem Services Program.
If a greater allocation of resources is available, according to Article 5 of the Tax Simplification and Efficiency Law No. 8114 published in La Gaceta No. 131, on July 9, 2001, or other financial resources that Fonafifo captures for the Payment for Environmental Services, they will be distributed according to the criteria of the financiers and the authorities of the Ministry or corresponding authorities. In any case, the resources used for these purposes must be incorporated into the institutional budget or into Fideicomiso 544 Fonafifo/BNCR.
2. Of the payment amounts per activity and other conditions:
2.1. For the activity of Forest Protection: The conditions that will govern the processing of applications, for the recognition of the Environmental or Ecosystem Services in this activity, are the following:
- a)The amount to be paid for the environmental service of greenhouse gas mitigation and biodiversity considered as the base, will be one hundred five thousand exact colones (₡105,000.00) per hectare, disbursed over a period of five years; distributed in annual payments of 20% each.
- b)The amount to be paid for the environmental service of greenhouse gas mitigation and biodiversity considered as the base, plus an additional for the service of protection of the water resource considered as a plus, will be one hundred eighty-five thousand colones with 00/100 (₡185,000.00) per hectare, disbursed over a period of five years; distributed in annual payments of 20% each.
- c)The amount to be paid for the environmental service of greenhouse gas mitigation and biodiversity considered as the base, plus an additional for the service of protection of sites of high biodiversity considered as a plus, will be one hundred eighty-five thousand colones with 00/100 (₡185,000.00) per hectare, disbursed over a period of five years; distributed in annual payments of 20% each.
- d)The amount to be paid for the combination of the base, water resource, and high biodiversity will be two hundred sixty-five thousand colones with 00/100 (₡265,000) per hectare, distributed in annual payments of 20% each.
2.2. Updating of the payment amounts. For subsequent annual payments, MINAE, through a reasoned resolution, may vary these amounts and update them, and similarly may decree extraordinary increases in the amounts to be paid, the foregoing considering the budget availability and its inclusion in the corresponding budgets.
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