In accordance with the European Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, Member States of the European Union have the assistance of the European Commission in 2014 to map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services at the national level. By 2020, they assess the economic value of these services and to promote the integration of these values into the accounting system and reporting at European and national level. This paper reports an analysis of different approaches to the evaluation of ecosystem functions and services. It is necessary to distinguish ecosystem functions relating to the interest of human society and the ecosystem services that represent the gifts of nature provided the human society for its well-being. In the world literature there is a rich overview of approaches to evaluation ecosystem functions and services.