OP Environment (OPZP)

Subsidy programs intended for public administration, businesses and the non-profit sector

Collection, separation and recycling of waste

Supported activities:

Collection, gathering, sorting, material use of waste, including hazardous (e.g. collection yards, sorting lines, energy use of waste, etc.).

Subsidy amount:

Individual, according to the type of project and public support, in the case of public support generally up to 35% (VP), 45% (SP), 55% (MP), projects without public support 85%.

Information:

Implementation of projects throughout the territory of the Czech Republic.

In some cases, support in the form of a subsidy in combination with a preferential loan.

The specific call usually supports only selected types of waste and the emphasis is placed on municipal type waste.

Flood protection measures

Supported activities:

Flowing or increasing the retention potential of watercourse beds and adjacent floodplains.

Management of rainwater in the intra-village and its further use instead of its rapid discharge through sewers into streams.

Renewal, construction and reconstruction, or modernization of waterworks serving flood protection.

Building, expanding and improving the quality of warning, reporting, forecasting and warning systems at the local level, digital flood plans.

Subsidy amount:

85% of the total eligible expenditure of the project, except for the replacement of impervious paved surfaces with permeable paved and permeable surfaces, where support will be provided at the rate of 50% of the total eligible expenditure.

Information:

Rainwater management is dealt with in areas with existing buildings and, for the most part, with buildings of a non-commercial (non-business) nature, or the drainage of rainwater from existing public buildings and objects not used for commercial purposes is dealt with.

Strengthening the natural functions of the landscape

Supported activities:

Measures to facilitate migration barriers for selected species of animals (amphibians, protected species of reptiles, otters, beavers, ground squirrels, bats), especially on significant migration routes of amphibians, measures to reduce animal mortality related to the development of technical infrastructure.

Establishment of ÚSES biocenters and biocorridors, improvement of the functional state of ÚSES biocenters and biocorridors, implementation of interactive elements supporting ÚSES, linear and group planting of trees (tree lines, windbreaks, riparian vegetation, draws), establishment or restoration of a landscape element, creation and restoration of watercourses close to nature , restoration of river branches in the watercourse floodplain.

Subsidy amount:

60% to 100% of the total eligible expenses of the project according to the type of activity.

Information:

As part of the implementation, non-native species, including cultivars, will not be introduced into the open landscape.

The ÚSES implementation project is in accordance with the spatial plan.

Improving the quality of the environment in settlements

Supported activities:

Establishment of areas and elements of public greenery (parks, gardens, orchards, street tree rows, alleys, forest parks, draws, overhangs), i.e. linear, group and solitary plantings, grassy areas including species-rich lawns, etc. and realization of functional interconnections of natural areas and elements , restoration of the functional state of existing areas and elements of public greenery (revitalization interventions, treatment of trees, addition of existing plantings), implementation of measures close to nature to slow down runoff and retain rainwater as part of the establishment and restoration of areas and elements of greenery

Subsidy amount:

60% of the total eligible expenditure of the project

Information:

Revitalized green areas are defined in the spatial plan as green areas in public spaces or separately defined as green areas or defined within the residential green system or as areas whose conditions of use ensure protection against development and enable use as green areas

The project is implemented in a municipality with a minimum population of 500 on the date of application.