The development of civil aviation, and hence the increased use of airport infrastructure, leads to the exceeding of environmental noise standards. The subject of this article is to present the issues related to the possibility of introducing restrictions and bans to reduce noise generated at airports.

The article is devoted to the problem of “binding” with the content of decisions on environmental conditions. It specifies not only the environmental conditions for the implementation of the project, but also other obligations in the field of environmental protection.

Article analyses issues connected with lack of specific regulations regarding performance of examinations by accredited laboratories in the process of remediation and possibilities for authorities to verify results of such examinations. In order to provide contest for the analysis, the article familiarizes the reader with short description of the remediation as a legal institution as well as the corresponding procedure. Article also includes de lege ferenda postulates in this respect.

The article deals with the issue of the recycling fee referred to in Article 40a of the Act of 13 June 2013 on Packaging and Packaging Waste Management (c.t. Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1114 as amended) from the legal and tax point of view, in particular the legal nature of the recycling fee, entities related to its collection, the subjective scope of the fee, the principles of its collection and the legal consequences of its collection for the obliged entrepreneurs.

Article 24 defines general requirements of license applications, relating to all kinds of licensed activities. They include, in particular, information about the applicant, the type and manner of performing the intended activity, rights to the area within which the activity is to be performed, as well as identification of the resources at the applicant’s disposal to achieve this goal. Additional requirements that must be met by an application for a license for prospecting (exploration) of mineral deposits are set out in Art. 25 of the commented act. This applies in particular to the type of mineral sought (explored), the location of the intended works and their technology, as well as the intended accuracy of the mineral deposit identification. The appendix to such application is the geological operations plan.

The subject of the considerations contained in the article is the analysis of selected issues related to the legal regulation regarding the civil law obligation to prevent damage that may result from mining plant operations. It is about the regulations contained in the Act of June 9, 2011, Geological and Mining Law, and to a certain extent also in the Act of April 23, 1964, the Civil Code. This analysis includes not only theoretical considerations, but also refers to the practice of applying the law. It contains a discussion and a critical assessment of the Supreme Court’s judgment of February 20, 2018.

The EU promotes the implementation of pro-ecological solutions in the member states to restore the environment in order to improve the living conditions of the citizens. Co-financing for the implementation of projects supporting the protection of climate change is mainly provided under the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Program, as well as Regional Operational Programs and the Cohesion Fund. The aim of the article is to show how helpful measures will contribute to the improvement of the favorable environment.
The dogmatic and legal analysis was used as the basic research method, which made it possible to select the extent to which EU funds support pro-environmental activities.

Mining activity remains crucial for protecting the state’s interests as a whole and ensuring its energy security. Coal deposits of various types are a national good, but exhaustible. On the one hand, they should be taken care of when running a rational extractive economy especially in the context of the constitutional principle of sustainable development, on the other hand, however, one should be conscious of possible conflicts of interests arising in the context of such activities. After all, extractive activity is not irrelevant either to the environment or to the various entities interests and these could be both individual and public. A particularly interesting case could be that of a conflict of public interests of the State Treasury and local government units, which are exposed to the negative effects of the functioning of mines. Similar conflicts of
interests arise in relations between the European Union and some Member States, which base their energy security on coal. These selected aspects are the subject of this study.