However, ideally the rate should reflect the trees’ biodiversity value, with higher rates for threatened species, possibly based on the priority ranking of threatened forest tree species (see Koziol and Matras, 2013). Most expenditure on nature protection on private land over 2007-13 was financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) as part of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). As regards public land, there is uncertainty as to the amount of LP budget devoted to nature protection, but budgetary expenditure on nature protection in LP forests has remained very limited.