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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present the status of integration of public or non-production functions into the market mechanisms by example of the experience of foreign countries. We attempted to summarize the common characteristics of the non-production functions implementation into the market mechanisms from the case studies from different scientific forest sources, mainly from European Union. Case studies were classified on the basis of two major groups: products/services and financial mechanisms. The study focuses on three primary parts about information on concerned or interested actors and their mutual interactions, financial mechanisms, and supporting and impeding factors. The analysis findings show that there exists a low level of integration of public function into the market mechanism. Problems of implementation can be described as pervasive in all analyzed countries. As from the Slovak Republic point of view, it is needed to take into account the foreign experience and try to find a solution of public function implementation according to the best practices found.