Abstract
Despite its relatively small landmass of 78,866 km2, the Czech Republic has a diverse physical geography with numerous valuable plant and animal species. Czech law provides for various instruments to protect nature and biodiversity. Some of these are based on European law, introduced at the time of the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union in 2004. However, Czech environmental law does not provide for any instrument of compensation covering the entire country, e.g. one corresponding to Germany’s Eingriffsregelung (Impact Mitigation regulation). At the same time, duties of compensation are determined for individual sectors such as within the Law on Nature and Landscape Conservation (ZOPK 1992) as well as other laws.
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Boučková, A., & Albrecht, J. (2018). The Czech Republic. In Biodiversity Offsets: European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (pp. 91–98). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72581-9_6
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