National Biodiversity Strategy of the Czech Republic. 2016–2025

The National Biodiversity Strategy of the Czech Republic is a national cross sectoral strategy whose main objective is to maintain, and in some selected cases to improve, the state of biodiversity through the proposed measures. The Strategy provides a set of priority objectives and measures creating a conceptual framework in the field of biodiversity conservation in the territory of the Czech Republic during the period 2016-2025.
The Strategy defines the 4 following priority areas: 1. Society recognising the value of natural resources. 2. Biodiversity flourishing in the long term and protection of natural processes. 3. Environmentally friendly use of natural resources. 4. Providing up-to-date and relevant information.
In those 4 priority areas, there is a total of 20 framework objectives which describe the general context and relevance of the minor issues of biodiversity protection, to which a description follows highlithing the most important pressures on biodiversity in the region and the threats which may have a significant impact in the area in the future. Each objective is followed by a table of component sub-objectives and each of them defines measures and activities that should be implemented in the following period.
For the purpose of monitoring the implementation of component objectives, an indicator, deadline, verification source and responsible authority for each measure is determined, to facilitate the continuous overall Strategy assessment, which will make it possible to determine, for each component objective, whether or not and to what extent it is implemented and then set the performance of the whole Strategy accordingly. The assessment of the Strategy will take place in two stages: 1. The mid-term review of the implementation of the component objectives of the Strategy in the middle of the period (the end of the year 2020). 2. Overall evaluation of the Strategy in 2025.