"Article 16 BIS. Forms of canceling the pecuniary consideration.
The annual amount of the pecuniary consideration (contraprestación pecuniaria) may be canceled in kind through advertising spaces or slots in radio, television, social media, and corporate websites, or annually on the anniversary date of the permit issuance, the permittee must deposit the amount to be canceled as pecuniary consideration into the Special Account of the National Parks Fund number 41220-5 of the Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, in accordance with the provisions of articles 35 and 41 of the Biodiversity Law.
The spaces to be disseminated must have the approval of the Institutional Communication Department of MINAE (DECI), which will coordinate the pertinent matters with the Conservation Area of the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), and shall be aimed at disseminating information related to the Environment and Energy sectors, in the following manner:
1 Broadcast during peak audience hours, four thirty-second spots per day.
2 Broadcast once a week, a fifteen-minute program, on the day and time jointly determined with MINAE. This program may be divided into segments by mutual agreement, provided the aforementioned total time is met.
3 Provide at no cost, the monitoring of MINAE's aired spaces, the recording and copying of spots and programs of the radio stations and of MINAE, useful for the Ministry's environmental education programs.
4 Provide at no cost, editing equipment and its operators for up to six hours per month, so that MINAE may edit materials to be used both in the spots and in the weekly fifteen-minute programs.
The permittee must inform the Institutional Communication Department (DECI) of MINAE and the corresponding Conservation Area of the hours and days on which the spots or programs will be scheduled. The material may be changed at the time MINAE deems it necessary or pertinent, and may request the repetition of any space that has already been disseminated, if deemed necessary.
In the event of non-compliance with payment in kind, or payment by barter for airtime spaces, the DECI shall inform the pertinent Conservation Area so that the corresponding administrative measures may be taken, which are the sending of a written warning notification and, in a second act, the suspension of the Use Permit for the Installation of Telecommunications Infrastructure in Protected Wilderness Areas and State Natural Heritage Administered by the National System of Conservation Areas.