From 2002 onwards, the amount of funding potentially available for environmental NGOs through tenders was continuously reduced. The limit amount available in 2014 reached only HUF 70 million, which was significantly less than the previous 2013 low record of 85 million forints (the 2011 value was HUF 119 million).The funds of the National Cooperation Fund, amounting to 3 billion HUF, are in principle at the disposal of green NGOs as well. However, the decision-making structure thereof is not transparent: the people in charge of allocating the funds are close to the government, and support NGOs and quangos only in the hope of gaining direct political benefit, and they cannot expect such benefits from the environmental NGOs.