Many governmental policies and strategic documents were developed before Slovakia's accession to the Convention or back in the period of completely different economic and social conditions. They do not always respect the need for conservation of biodiversity at all levels or meet the criteria of sustain ability. Moreover, their effectiveness is likely to be negatively influenced by the profound changes resulting from the ongoing transformation of the national economy. In conformity with the state environmental policy, the National Biodiversity Strategy, inter alia,
focuses on:
 

1.	the restoration of the damaged environment
2.	the establishment of legal, economic and ethical steering systems and mechanisms that would prevent adverse effects on biodiversity
3.	the discontinuation of biodiversity decline as a precondition for maintaining ecological stability and genetic resources conservation
4.	the application of enhanced protection and rational use of natural resources
5.	the recultivation of landscapes affected by large- scale deforestation, erosion or landslides, the strengthening of the resistance potential of forest ecosystems, the restoration of the natural structure of forest stands and the preference to afforestation of strongly and extremely impaired plots
6.	the employment of the II. and III. protection degrees ěn respect of ecologically important units and the completion of components of the ecological network for nature conservation in lowlands and basins by means of targeted restoration projects
7.	the reduction of existing threats to wild plants and animals, and implementation of the recovery programs and projects in respect of critically endangered flora and fauna species
8.	the restoration of old waterbeds and lakes
9.	the introduction and implementation of legal and economic measures that will provide for control of nature based activities, inter alia, by providing incentives to owners of land under protection by law.
10.	the introduction of indicators for measuring the effectiveness of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
11.	the completion of the chain of bi- and tri-lateral protected areas

By way of proper implementation of the National Biodiversity Strategy, an effective contribution will be made to the state environmental policy as expressed in its targets.

Strategic directions:
 

	review existing concepts, strategies, plans and policies, with priority to those adopted before the Convention entered into force and amend them accordingly;
	replace all applicable documentation where amendments would be insufficient to achieve compatibility between biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of biological resources;
	strengthen the implementation of policies supportive to biodiversity conservation and promoting the sustainable use of biological resources;