The State Fund for the Environment could grow large in the future as more companies are required to pay into it. The management of the fund is interested in how to improve the decision-making process and to establish a loan system to replace the current grants system. They also complain that the collected fees, through the State Environmental Fund, are then not used effectively for industrial needs. There is some interest in the business community in tools that allow the optimal environmental benefit from an economic point of view. The Central Environmental Protection Fund is a state fund earmarked for financing environmental measures with environment related revenues bypassing the Budget.
Sources are fines, product charges, user fees, and funds allocated from international aid programs.
Hungarian banks have no special schemes to finance environmental investments. EBRD applies environmental auditing to all its programs. Privatization deals sometimes include obligations for abatement of past pollution in return of price cuts. However, in such cases many buyers prefer more expensive green field investments. In cases of immediate environmental hazards the State has intervened to contain the pollution.