a. 7% to cover the execution costs of this payment in accordance with the provisions of Article 64 of Executive Decree Nº 25721-MINAE, Regulation to the Forestry Law (Ley Forestal) Nº 7575, amended by Executive Decree Nº 30762-MINAE. b. For the payment of outstanding commitments from contracts from the year 1997 to 2003, a total of four billion seven hundred nineteen million thirty-three thousand seven hundred fifty-seven colones (¢4,719,033,757.00). c. For payment of environmental services for reforestation projects covering 5,400 hectares located in the priority areas, to establish plantations with the objective of producing raw material for the forestry industry. d. For payment of environmental services for forest protection covering 51,800 hectares located in the priority areas. e. For the payment of environmental services generated by established forest plantations, carried out with own resources or soft loans, up to an amount of fifty million colones. f. For payment of environmental services to reforestation projects covering 600 hectares with native species, established as priorities and contained in the decrees on bans and threatened or endangered species (Decreto N° 25663-MINAE and Decreto N° 25700-MINAE). g. For the payment of environmental services for reforestation in agroforestry systems, up to one hundred fifty million colones exactly (¢150,000,000), which includes forty-one million five hundred thirty-eight thousand four hundred sixty-two colones exactly (¢41,538,462) to finance commitments acquired during the year 2003 and the remainder for the formalization of new contracts. h. For payment of environmental services on 2,200 hectares of forest protection located in areas that protect water sources in general and especially those destined for human consumption.
FONAFIFO may vary the distribution established in the preceding subsections according to the supply of lands intended to enter the modalities, provided they do not exceed the total amount of the resources authorized in this article.
The contracts issued for this purpose by the National Forest Financing Fund shall establish the conditions, terms, form of payment and other requirements to comply with what is stipulated in this article.
In the event of a greater allocation of resources as established in Article 5 of Law N° 8114 "Tax Simplification and Efficiency Law" and other financial resources from projects under negotiation or from other income captured by FONAFIFO for the payment of environmental services, these shall be distributed proportionally among the same modalities established in this decree.